Portia Yuran Li (born in 1995 in Shijiazhuang) is a contemporary artist based in London. She obtained her master's degree from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017-2019). Portia Yuran's creative practice encompasses fiction writing, installation art, performance art, and theatre. She specialises in intertwining research archives, mythology, fictional narratives, and live performances to explore the complex dynamics of power, geopolitics, and identity contradictions underlying human activities. By delving into the series of traumas within East Asian families and the life struggles of East Asian immigrants, she utilises performance art and body workshops for healing, subtly revealing human struggles and desires, blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination. Portia Yuran has been commissioned to create performance art by the London Science Gallery and IKLECTIK, and has performed performance art in multiple galleries and art museums including the Old Operating Theatre Museum in London. In 2023, the children's theatre she founded in London performed at the Blackheath Hall in London.
李喻然(1995年生于石家庄)是一位常驻伦敦的当代艺术家。她于伦敦大学金史密斯学院取得硕士学位(2017-2019)。李喻然的创作涵盖虚构写作、装置艺术、行为艺术和戏剧。她擅长将研究档案、神话、虚构叙事和现场表演相互交织,旨在探索人类活动背后的权力动态、地缘政治和身份矛盾所产生的复杂张力。她通过探索东亚家庭内的系列伤痛以及东亚移民的生活困境,运用行为艺术和身体工作坊来疗愈,微妙地展现了人类的挣扎和欲望,模糊现实与想象之间的边界。李喻然曾受伦敦科学画廊和IKLECTIK委托创作行为艺术,并在伦敦旧手术室博物馆等多个画廊和美术馆进行过行为艺术表演。2023年,她在伦敦创立的儿童剧场在伦敦布莱克希西音乐厅演出。
Her paintings are inspired by ancient Chinese murals, cultural heritage, and craftsmanship. Yuran strives to establish a dialogue bridge between the past and the present in her artwork. Rooted in the challenge to anthropocentrism, she delves into the personification of vanished objects and artefacts. Additionally, her works also encompass the depiction of traces of human activities, which serve as containers of temporal and spatial memories. For instance, she combines ancient three-colour pottery horse figurines with contemporary plastic and felt toy horses for children, illustrating the functional transformation of Jue.
李喻然的绘画受到中国古代壁画、文化遗产和手工艺品的启发。她致力于在作品中建立过去与现在的对话桥梁,挑战人类中心主义,并深入探索已消逝物品和文物的拟人化。她的作品还表达了人类活动痕迹的描绘,这些痕迹成为时空记忆的容器。例如,她将古代的三彩陶马玩偶与当代塑料和毛毡小马玩偶结合,也有绘画描绘了爵的功能性转变。
A product of one-child policy.
A witness of the rapid changes urban construction.