Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Sea View Hollywood, Los Angeles
Shuangyi Li’s paintings are atemporal, in one moment recalling the Victorian tragedies of the Brontë sisters and in another, the contemporary experience of urban life. The lack of historic specificity in these works is an intentional decision by Li to relate to the viewer through tension and mood, rather than by offering any tangible sense of time or place. In the end, the work reflects a coming-of-age, a ubiquitous experience that is at once both isolating yet universal, intimate yet indiscriminate, and daunting yet liberating. Over the past year, Li has expanded upon the subject of intergenerational family dynamics into an autonomous realm beyond formal frameworks of relations and identity. This energetic departure from the hyper-personal removes narrative constraints from her images, allowing them to exist within residual moments of inaccessible mystery, as if an inscrutable action has just taken place somewhere “off screen”. Rather than resolving themselves, Li’s cinematic paintings suspend legibility and offer moments shaped both physically and psychologically by erosion and withdrawal.l