Swiss Institute (SI) presents I’m Not, the first institutional solo exhibition by artist Shuang Li, featuring newly commissioned sculpture and video installations. Li’s work explores how language, relationships and identities are formed and mediated through screens and the internet. For I’m Not, Li delves into her own life as a fan to ruminate on how these technologies inform the social bonds and materiality of fandom, and the complexities of building a world predicated on a fervent love of something distant. Growing up in a small town in Southeast China, Li became (and remains) an ardent fan of My Chemical Romance, a band that introduced the possibility of subcultural belonging as well as the English language into the artist's life. MCR fandom unfolds as a case study in the exhibition for an examination of distant bodies and displaced desires.
SHUANG LI: I’M NOT
May 01 - Aug 25 2024
Swiss Institute (SI)
38 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003
