Yushi Li
My work engages with the question of the gaze in relation to gender, sexuality and desire in light of digital social networks. Through different online platforms, such as Tinder and Airbnb, I find the 'ideal' man and 'ideal' home to construct my 'ideal' images, using photography to examine established ways of staging eroticism and intimacy. In my work, the female figure is no longer the incarnation of someone else's dream or desire, but the creator of her own stories. Instead of simply reversing the gender roles of men and women, my work tries to play with the power relationship inherent in the gaze, and to question the distinction between representations and individual subjects in an era of rapid social change.
Eleonora Agostini • Nicholas Constant • Sophie Culiere • Emily Elkins • Harry Gammer-Flitcroft • Rachel Glass • Yushi Li • Dafne Salis • Edu Torres • Shino Yanai •
Arts University Bournemouth
MA Commercial Photography
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
University of Plymouth
MFA Photographic Arts
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography