About

LI Yuchen’s artistic practice is a journey through migration, memory, and the reenchantment of the world. Born in the ancient city of Nanchang, China, her work is deeply influenced by the waters of the Chang Jiang River and the diasporic experiences that have shaped her life. At its core, her practice seeks to restore the relationships, magic, and knowledge systems erased by modernity, inviting us to reconnect with ancestral wisdom and the pluriverse.

LI’s work is rooted in embodied knowledge—the deep memories and wisdom stored in our Earth-bodies, communal bodies, and relational bodies. She explores how these knowledges can be awakened and woven into collective participation, through shared storytelling and mutual learning. Her installations, videos, and performances are sites of encounter, where the dynamics of meeting “the Other” are explored with curiosity and care. By intertwining her own stories into the encounters, LI invites viewers to reflect on their own positions within the web of life and to consider how we might build kinship across differences. Her work is not about providing answers but about opening spaces for collective transformation, where the world can be experienced anew through restored relationships and reclaimed magic.

LI is a member of the Weaving Realities collective, where she engages in performances and workshops that deepen our connection to the living Earth, a member of Pluriversity Weavers to learn and unlearn with the Iku community and the co-founder of Asian Movie Night, a roaming film project that celebrates diverse Asian cultures through cinema and dialogue. Through these collaborative endeavors, LI continues to explore art as a practice of decolonial world-making, reenchantment, and the restoration of relational worlds.

LI has collaborated with various art and academic institutions in the Netherlands and abroad, such as Rijksakademie, CBK Zuidoost, Nieuw Dakota, Goleb, NieuwLand in Amsterdam, Casco institute for Art, Utrecht University in Utrecht, International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, OtherWise from Wageningen University, The Decolonial Summer School organised by University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, Bonn University, Kassel University in Germany, Editorial Collectivo Retos in Mexico and UniTierra Manizales in Colombia.