Artist Li Qi expresses the specific context of an individual’s life by connecting her personal body perception with the objects in her life. She uses common objects in her life as her connection to the world and combines them to construct a context that is free from thought but capable of transmitting perception.
This project combines the phenomenology of perception and Affect Theory to transform personal connections to objects into installations placed in three different contexts with different degrees of openness: my private studio, a group critique, and an outdoor public park, to test how my feelings change when these objects are shown in different contexts and audiences. Then, in this process, women’s emotional expression, which is often suppressed by objectification in public space, is also released in public art practice. I view my personal belongings and objects that have a strong connection to my life as substances that can express my personal perceptions, and combine them into a contextualised installation. In this way we explored the effects of exposing personal objects and emotions on individual perception in different contexts. At the same time, when household objects appear as artworks and interact with the environment and different subjective perceptions, the meaning of the material itself is liberated and dynamically reconstructed in the observation.
