Statement

How do we perceive and respond to the contingency of time?
How do we store memory and approach history?
How can we speculate about the future without repeating dominant narratives?
How do we communicate with a volcano?

Xy June Li is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist working with text, video, installation, performance, and painting. In light of new materialist thinking, her practice investigates cultural identities, gender, and our shifting relationship to land, landscape, and time. Through research-led projects and fictional narration, she challenges common sense and expands the viewer’s imagination—opening spaces where reality can be re-read, re-scripted, and negotiated. Rooted in ontological inquiry, her work asks how we come to be, how we inhabit the present, and how alternative futures might be imagined from what has been overlooked, displaced, or silenced.