Dinu Li: Tings Are Tuff

Dinu Li’s collage speaks to the overlooked history of Chinese servants, uprooted to the Caribbean as cheap labourers. Often from the same part of China as the artist’s ancestral roots, Li acknowledges the contributions made by these servants and their descendants. Inspired by the iconography of street markets and roadside hawker stalls, Tings Are Tuff forges new possibilities out of disparately assembled objects.

 

Product Information

2024

Photo collage on giclee premium matt paper 270gsm

42 x 59.4cm

 

About the Artist

Dinu Li was born in Hong Kong and currently lives and works in Cornwall, UK. Li is an interdisciplinary artist working with sculptural assemblage, video and photography. In his practice, Li examines the manifestation of culture in the everyday, finding new meaning to the familiar, making visible the seemingly invisible.

Li has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the 53rd Venice Biennale; the 3rd Bucharest Biennale; Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Germany; and the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin. Li’s works are held in private collections in Berlin, London, St Gallen and Zurich. He has presented papers in many conferences including Urban Encounters at Tate Britain in 2017. In 2019, Li’s film Nation Family was selected by Sacha Craddock, Mark Titchner and Matt Burrows for the Exeter Contemporary Open Art Award as the Overall Winner. In 2022, Li was an awardee of The Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award.

 

Collection and Shipping

This work is part of our 2024 Winter Fundraiser and will be available for collection or shipping from 14th - 20th December. Please note all items will be shipped via Royal Mail Tracked 24 unless stated otherwise.