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Tabby Li

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I’m a multidisciplinary artist exploring identity formation through object and space. I work with silicone and latex prosthetic pieces, distorted forms cast from the human body, organic and synthetic hair, as well as post-functional materials – discarded, found objects such as furniture, electrical equipment and household appliances.

My practice investigates the complexities, sensations, and experience of marginality, drawing upon bell hooks' concept of Thirdspace and my mixed-race Chinese-Irish heritage. I’m interested in how our environments—both public and private—shape and influence us, and my work is an ongoing inquiry into the potentials of constructed corporeality.

Recently, I’ve been working with gawky, obsolete objects, attempting to reconfigure the defunct materials in a way that challenges the concept of a functional shelf life. By rejecting clinical functionality, categorical constraints and imposed meanings, I assemble objects until they begin to build relationships and form an internal logic and sense of identity within its own right – where the components merge and work as part of a system, whilst still operating within the aesthetic principles of its materiality.

The relationships that emerge offer openings and exchanges, connections to life, and possibilities within the creative act. My goal is to uncover networks of information within the work that explore, connect and expand through the potentials of the everyday – questioning operative presumption, the ephemeral body, the overlooked, discarded and the uncanny.

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