About
Wan’er Li is a multidisciplinary artist based in China, working across moving image, installation, sound, and spatial practice.
Her practice explores how human existence is continuously shaped through the relationships between body, consciousness, perception, and the surrounding world. Rather than understanding the self as fixed or isolated, she approaches existence as an ongoing process of connection, disconnection, transformation, and becoming.
Her work often begins with personal experiences of displacement, floating, rootlessness, and the shifting boundaries between the inner self and external reality. Through observing and recording seemingly ordinary moments, she explores how fragments of memory, sensation, emotion, and everyday experience can become connected and generate new relationships. Moving image, sound, and spatial intervention become ways of translating these invisible processes into perceptual experiences.
Informed by philosophy, psychology, and lived experience, her practice engages with ideas of flow, synchronicity, relational becoming, belonging, shadow, and integration. She is particularly interested in how the body can reconnect with reality, how seemingly separate fragments can form a larger whole, and how a sense of self can be continuously reconstructed through encounters with others and the world.
Her ongoing practice moves between the personal and the social, the visible and the invisible, exploring how art can create spaces for perception, connection, and self-recognition. Rather than seeking a fixed definition of identity, she sees artistic practice as a process of continuously approaching—and becoming—a more authentic self.
Wan’er Li 是一位跨学科艺术家，现居中国，主要通过动态影像、装置、声音与空间实践进行创作。
她的创作关注身体、意识、感知与周围世界之间不可见的关系，试图理解：我们如何在与现实持续接触的过程中感知自身，又如何在不断的连接、断裂与重新连接中生成“自我”。
她的创作通常从个人经验出发——身体与意识的错位、漂浮与无根感、记忆与现实之间的间隙，以及那些难以被语言捕捉的感知瞬间。她持续关注日常生活中偶然发生的片段，并尝试从影像、声音、身体与空间的交汇中，寻找它们之间潜在的联系。对她而言，这些看似孤立的经验并非彼此分离，而可能在不同的时间、空间与感知维度中重新相遇，并生成新的关系。
受哲学、心理学与个人经验的共同影响，她的实践涉及流动、共时性、关系性生成、归属、影子与整合等主题。她尤其关注身体如何重新进入现实，分散的生命片段如何重新连接，以及人在与世界不断发生关系的过程中，如何重新建立对自身的感知。
她并不将身份理解为一个需要被最终定义的固定答案，而更倾向于把艺术视为一种持续发生的过程——在感知、连接与变化之中，不断接近真实的自己，也不断成为自己。