Yushi Li, The Death of Actaeon
Yushi Li, The Death of Actaeon
The Death of Actaeon
2020
Hand printed c-type print FRAMED
Image Size: 106cmHx127cmW
Edition of 3
+ About the work
The Death of Actaeon, which is inspired by Titian’s painting of the same title, is a part of Yushi Li's ongoing series Paintings, Dreams and Love. The original painting depicts the moment when the goddess Diana is hunting Actaeon after she found out that Actaeon had been looking at her bathing naked in the woods. In Li's photograph, the man is the one who is being looked at, while she is both the looker and the hunter. Through taking an active rather than passive role in her work, instead of simply reversing the gender roles, Li tries to intervene within existing representations of erotic desire to question the dichotomy of active men and passive women that has been broadly embedded in art history.
+ 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.