LI RAN – THE SIGNS ARE PRESENT
2025-04-21This body of work is also marked by a cohesive and contemplative painterly language—non-polemical, free of antagonism, and unburdened by historical hierarchies of authority or precedence. Li offers viewers a personal and introspective point of entry: his daily studio ritual of opening the Bible and engaging with spiritual reflection. However, he asserts that this practice is not intended to invoke mysticism. Instead, it underscores an enduring capacity to engage with personal experience, manipulates visual and rhetorical motifs, and draws upon cultural references, without being constrained by dominant historical interpretations.
Opposite – They Swear, Dance, Alongside Miracle, 2024
Exhibition runs through to August 23rd, 2025
Lisson Gallery
1037 N. Sycamore Avenue
90038
Los Angeles
