Biography
Born in Taiwan, Jennis Li Cheng Tien moved to Singapore with her family at the age of 14. In 2010 she received her Master of Fine Arts from the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany.
Li’s work has been widely exhibited, including Neues Museum Weimar (Germany); Hallen am Wasser, Berlin; ADDAYA Centre d’Art Contemporani in Mallorca (Spain); Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago; IIT Crownhall, Chicago; Heidelberger Kunstverein (Germany). She has also realised several public space projects in various cities throughout Europe (Germany, Spain and Italy). In 2011, she has been selected and participated in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT in Berlin.
Li’s work ranges from urban interventions to site-specific installations that aspire to be perceptually engag- ing. Her keen interest is acutely associated with spatial analysis and locality, subsequently refining her own conceptual and visual vocabulary that emerged through her focus on the points of intersection between architecture, sculpture, and urban structure. In most of her recent works, she attempts to integrate local participation as she is interested in how her work, with input from people, can be shaped differently, adding another layer of relevance and purpose to a place. Formal considerations of aesthetics are often devised as the framework, leaving space for the prospect of for spontaneity of social encounters to take place. While metaphor is essential in my conception and process, my focus is not primarily on the ideological but on the sensory, aesthetic experience at a primal, physical level.
