Yicheng Li
About
Education
Hunan Institute of Science and Technology，BFA 2015-2019
Royal College of Art，MA 2021-2023
Selected Exhibitions
The Transformation Door Art Exhibition, Guangzhou , 2022
Pull Over and Take a Cig, Espacio Gallery，London , 2022
Möbius Photography Exhibition, Banshan Chung Gallery，Ningbo，China，2021
Gansu Image 1000 | Issue 067（online)，China，2021
Internation Student Art Exhibition，KNOT GALLERIA x NOYA，Shanghai，China，2021
Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition（online，China，2021
Joan Miro Exhibition，OCT Harbour No.8，Shenzhen，China，2021
"My Motherland" Youth Art Exchange Exhibition，Shenzhen，China，2019
"Contemporary Concept of Urban Space" Youth Photography Exhibition，Shenzhen，China, 2019
Member of Shenzhen Young Photographer Association (SZYPA), Shenzhen，China , 2018
Selected Honor
2022 edition of the Canon Student Development Programme
Statement
Rain(Yicheng Li) is a Tibetan artist from northwest China
Influenced by multi-ethnic and Tibetan Buddhist culture, his work deals with religion, cultural identity and the relationship between man and the environment. He is interested in how Buddhism influences ideology and subjective feelings. His project examines the philosophical stamp of religion on his personal emotional experiences and attempts to express it in various forms. Here, man and the environment are seen as an organic unity, following the cyclical laws of nature. Avoiding the mannerisms of visual style, the simple and unique visual language expresses the idea of self-creation.
Plant Portrait
Plant Portrait
There is a hidden force that goes round and round in the universe, uniting with nature and moving everything forward.
In the Tibetan world, the Buddha is the representative of this power, which is based on the natural environment and resonates with people. We are pushed, like a marionette, and we can vaguely feel this mysterious force behind us. Abandoning the concept of two-dimensional space and viewing from a three-dimensional perspective, we seem to be stared down from the sky by a pair of eyes, each of us already doomed.
Medium: Print：Hahnemuhle Photo Glossy；Shooting equipment：Mamiya RZ67 Pro
Size: 110x150cm
Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds is a response to my first time to study in the UK. It is my reflection and presentation on the relationship between identity and environment. I create a lonely picture feeling, no one appears, but can feel the traces of human existence, which is a state of dissociation in the real world and the unreal world.
Due to my minority status, this was my first time abroad in 28 years, from the excitement of just arriving in London, to the joy of touring various European countries on my own, to the adjustment and numbness of my surroundings after a year. For me, it is a threefold transformation from China to foreign countries, from ethnic minority areas to international cities, from workers to students. It's a temporary change of place and identity. Sometimes walking in the street, the camera fixed the moment, I was in a trance, suddenly felt that the scene of that moment brought me back to China, looking at these scenes like in China and like abroad.
Medium: Print：Hahnemuhle Photo Glossy；Shooting equipment：SNOY A7IV
Size: Multiple sizes
The Watcher
The Watcher
I use iPhone to shoot this photo. It’s all from behind people. I'm a Watcher, and it started with a movie. I want to say: We can only see what is in front of us, not what is behind us. At a deeper level, our viewing purposes are subjective, selective and restrictive.
I remember in the 《 Treatise on Logical Philosophy》, it says: “I am not in my world, I am the boundary of my world. ”I shoot different scenes, different people.
Medium: Print：Hahnemuhle Photo Glossy；Shooting equipment：iPhone13mini
Size: Multiple sizes