Yushi Li, The Artist Portrait (Collector)
Yushi Li, The Artist Portrait (Collector)
The Artist Portrait (Collector)
2019
C-type print
Image Size: 10cmH x 13cmW
Print Size: 15cmH x 20cmW
Edition / 15
+ About the work
The Artist Portrait is a series of staged self-portraits by Yushi Li, featuring some of the male collectors, gallerists and curators who have either bought or hosted an exhibition of her work. Through framing these individuals who have affected her art career in different ways, the artist plays with the power relations inherent not only in the gaze, but also within the art world. The nakedness of the collector goes beyond an erotic representation, serving instead as an indicator of the artist’s attempt to shift the power balance and loosen the boundaries between the subject and the object within the image.
+ About the artist
Yushi Li is a Chinese artist based in London. Having recently finished her MA studies at the Royal College of Art she has won accolades for her ingeniously produced work. Li was part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition in 2018 and received the Royal Photography Society Hundred Heroines Award.