Li Na

Li Na, born in Hebei in 1984, graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a master's degree in 2013, and is currently living and working in Chongqing. Focusing on the exploration and practice in materials and cross-media, her works revolve around time and life, where transience and eternity, existence and extinction, romance and harshness are interwoven with each other, giving the works a desolate and poetic meaning. His works have been exhibited in many important exhibitions both at home and abroad, including the “Temporary Existence - God and Things Traveling” Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, the First China Digital Art Exhibition, the 14th National Art Exhibition, and the Wuhan 27° Angle East Lake International Eco-Sculpture Biennale, among others. She was awarded the “Neo-Perception Love Unknown” Outstanding Female Artist Award, China Sculpture Exhibition Young Emerging Artist Award, Tomorrow Sculpture Award, and IES Illumination Awards. Her works have been collected by Today Art Museum, Beijing Times Art Museum, Le Murate Contemporary Art Center in Italy, Hubei Museum of Art, Shandong Museum of Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Museum, Shenzhen Pingshan Art Museum and other art institutions.

Credit: Li Na


Stardust Embers.Leather trimmings, gold threads.Variable.2025
Introduction of the Work: The installation takes the leather industry’s trimmings from Chinese leather factories as the core material, and the artist carefully sews them into the shape of “stone bags” with gold thread. The time spent on the production is stamped on the surface of “stone bags”. These discarded "useless" scraps simulate the random pattern of interstellar dust distributed after a supernova. They are not only the untold life fragments of factory workers in the global fashion industry, but also a metaphor for the chaos yet potential vitality of the residues from industrial production. In the process of sewing stitch by stitch, the behavior itself becomes the materialization of the remaining time, suggesting the isomorphic relationship between individual time and cosmic time. Richard Long uses natural stones to stack geometric order and poetic paths with “feet as pens" to write the earth. Nevertheless, this work measures time with "needles as rulers". Both use the simplest materials and repeated actions to explore the deep connection between materiality , labor and the universe.
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