Yushi Li
{{Short description|Chinese-born, London-based photographer}}
Yushi Li (born 1991) is a Chinese-born, London-based photographer whose work is concerned with the male gaze and the female gaze.
Life and work
Li was born in Hunan province, China and now lives in London. She earned an MA in photography at the Royal College of Art in London and was, as of 2019, studying for a PhD in Arts and Humanities there.
Her photography, through series such as Your Reservation is Confirmed, My Tinder Boys, and Paintings, Dreams and Love, is concerned with the male gaze and the female gaze. "Her work has typically featured naked, white and Western men, shown as acquiescent or vulnerable, while she is clothed and assertive, meeting the viewer’s gaze."
Publications with contributions by Li
- 209 Women. Liverpool: Bluecoat, 2019. {{ISBN|9781908457523}}.
Exhibitions
=Solo exhibitions=
=Group exhibitions=
- 209 Women, Portcullis House, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London, 2018/2019; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2019
See also
References
{{reflist|refs=
| access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = Exploring the economy of exposure in the work of Yushi Li - 1854 Photography
| url = https://www.1854.photography/2021/05/exploring-the-economy-of-exposure-in-the-work-of-yushi-li/
| website = British Journal of Photography}}
| access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = Yushi Li's photographs 'provoke' the male/female binary
| url = https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/yushi-li/
| date = 12 April 2021 | website = Creative Boom}}
| access-date = 2021-11-22 | title = Photographers in Focus: Yushi Li
| url = https://www.nowness.com/series/photographers-in-focus/yushi-li-gaze-nude
| website = www.nowness.com}}
| access-date = 2021-12-16
| title = A naked man in a bath with two octopuses: Yushi Li's best photograph
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/15/erotic-octopus-bath-yushi-li-best-photograph-hokusai-david-charlie-gilmour
| date = 15 December 2021 | website = the Guardian}}
| first1 = Charlotte | last1 = Irwin | access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = Yushi Li - Women in Photography
| url = http://hundredheroines.org/featured/yushi-li/ | date = 12 February 2020
| website = Hundred Heroines}}
| access-date = 2021-11-22 | title = Your Reservation Is Confirmed
| url = https://phmuseum.com/exhibition/falling/your-reservation-is-confirmed
| website = phmuseum.com}}
| first1 = Charlotte | last1 = Jansen | access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = Why This Chinese Photographer Takes Pictures of Naked Western Men
| url = https://elephant.art/why-this-chinese-photographer-takes-pictures-of-naked-western-men/
| date = 9 February 2021 | website = Elephant}}
| access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = Juxtapoz Magazine - Yushi Li Turns the Female Gaze onto White Men on Tinder
| url = https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/yushi-li-turns-the-female-gaze-onto-white-men-on-tinder/
| website = www.juxtapoz.com}}
| first1 = Charlotte | last1 = Irwin | access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = exploring sex, dating and digital intimacy through art
| url = https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pajejm/art-exploring-digital-intimacy
| date = 12 April 2019 | website = I-D}}
| access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = Yushi Li on photographing men she met through Tinder
| url = https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/nicer-tuesdays-april-2019-yushi-li-photography-160519
| website = www.itsnicethat.com}}
| access-date = 2021-11-22 | title = Paintings, Dreams and Love
| url = https://phmuseum.com/kikisisi/story/paintings-dreams-and-love-7e85ccff12
| website = phmuseum.com}}
| first1 = Mee-Lai | last1 = Stone | access-date = 2021-11-22
| title = Drag queens to cloud surfers: highlights from Photo London 2021 – in pictures
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/sep/08/drag-queens-to-cloud-surfers-highlights-from-photo-london-2021-in-pictures
| newspaper = The Guardian | date = 8 September 2021 | issn = 0261-3077}}
| access-date = 2021-11-22 | title = Your Reservation Is Confirmed
| url = http://www.vaslisouza.com/exhibitions1/your-reservation-is-confirmed
| website = vaslisouza.com}}
| access-date = 2021-11-27
| title = Yushi Li: Women Act, Men Appear, Union Gallery, exhibition review: 'Nude men and naked female desire'
| url = https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2020/12/07/yushi-li-women-act-men-appear-union-gallery-exhibition-review/
| date = 7 December 2020 | website = hackneycitizen.co.uk}}
| accessdate = 2021-04-06 | title = Photographers
| url = https://www.209women.co.uk/photographers | website = 209 Women}}
| accessdate = 2021-04-06 | title = Open Eye Gallery – 209 Women
| url = https://openeye.org.uk/whatson/209-women/
| website = Open Eye Gallery}}
| first = Lara | last = Delmage | newspaper = Metal | year = 2019
| title = Yushi Li / The objectified other
| url = https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/yushi-li-the-objectified-other
| access-date = 2022-08-26}}
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External links
- {{Official website|yushi.li}}
- [https://vimeo.com/449322251 "Photographers in Focus: Yushi Li"] – Li explains her work (video)
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Category:21st-century women photographers
Category:Chinese photographers
Category:Chinese women photographers
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:Alumni of University College London
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