#christinali

I love this photo by the novelist @oscarvandenboogaard of me and @distantatlas at @kunstinstituutmelly. Always grateful to @defneayas__ and @springhongkong for inviting me to work on Moderation(s). #HemanChong #ChristinaLi #oscarvandenboogaard #kunstinstituutmelly #Rotterdam (at Kunstinstituut Melly) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTUFgFEFC62/?utm_medium=tumblr

I’m participating in @artbasel’s OVR: Portals co-curated by @distantatlas #ChristinaLi! I’ll be speaking about two of my works #ForeignAffairs and #CallForTheDead this Thursday at 7 pm Singapore time. The link is in my stories. See you! Please come! “Foreign Affairs is a series of banal photographs of embassy backdoors. The systematic repetition of images simultaneously recalls a cinematic frame and the omnipresence of the surveillance camera that watches nothing and everything. As a literal and cumulative representation of embassy backdoors, each image of a backdoor can be read as infrastructural, making apparent the very form of the non-descript embassy backdoor and its component parts: greenery as camouflage, the lone face of a strategically positioned surveillance camera, the additional lock or additional gates. These banal representations are the threshold of the exceptional space of the embassy, which in and of itself is the physical manifestation of an agreement between two states of respective sovereignty.” Text by @kat_ditzig (at STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJqfgrlece/?utm_medium=tumblr

I’ve never separated work and life and I don’t think I can. I’ve always worked where I lived and I usually work until I collapse from complete and utter exhaustion. It’s the only way (I was heavily addicted to sleeping pills for 2 years) I know how to get to sleep without being addicted to any coma inducing substance. I’ve always made paintings on tables. I don’t really know how else to make one. It’s kinda like desktop painting, which is similar to desktop publishing I suppose. Here is a very, very early painting. One that predates the book covers and everything else. The painting obviously an Ed Ruscha rip-off. The text is obviously lifted from Godard. I don’t know why nobody called me out on it. I wish someone did. This is a painting made in 2008 for the @parasite.hk fundraising auction. @distantatlas asked me to donate something so I took the opportunity to make a painting the way I think I know how to make a painting which is to make some kind of layout with texts of some sorts. Anyway. Painting. #HemanChong #Breathless #2008 #ChristinaLi #ParasiteHK #DesktopPainting #DesktopPublishing (at Blk 3 Haig Rd) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDS1oAl5CD/?igshid=ruzwwgkz21xh

#HangingOut with @distantatlas #ChristinaLi #Omg (at The Hague, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnOlmiKB_Mq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l3pncps4xoa6

#TheSirenOfAmsterdam #Omg @distantatlas #ChristinaLi (at BIRD)

I love these people! #ChristinaLi #XiaoyuWeng #AtsukoNinagawa #HemanChong (at Art Basel Hong Kong)

It is very late and we are still here. #ChristinaLi #LeeKit (at Central District, Hong Kong)