Hongxi Li is a London-based Chinese artist whose sculptural and performance work examines human behaviour shaped by social conditions, with a focus on post-communist and Sino-capitalist frameworks. Her practice interrogates how power structures, territorial control, and systemic ideologies shape the emotional and physical body.

Li deconstructs and re-narrates ready-made forms – from furniture to architectural elements – rebelling against, co-opting, or exposing the systems she critiques. Her sculptures act as material propositions of structural critique, while her performances, often collaborative or channelled through the artist’s East Asian fictional persona Jolene, activate these forms through gestures that draw from the legacy of happenings.

INSTAGRAM @sassyli