Shuang Li (CN, 1990)

Residency period: January-March 2027

Shuang Li is a Berlin-based artist whose practice spans performance, interactive websites, sculpture, and moving image installations. Engaging with global communication systems and uneven flows of information, her work examines how technologies connect people while simultaneously operating as neoliberal apparatuses that regulate bodies and desires. Beyond the virtual, Li investigates the material infrastructures and logistical networks that sustain the digital landscape, paying close attention to the “cracks” within these systems. Her practice traces the intimacies formed between mediums and their users, reflecting on the entanglement of digital culture, its physical underpinnings, and the social structures it produces.

Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, Prada Rong Zhai (Shanghai), the Swiss Institute (New York), and Peres Projects (Milan), as well as in group exhibitions at 032c Gallery (Berlin), Konstmuseum Malmö, Karma International (Zurich), and the Biennale of Moving Images at the Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva).

During her residency at La Becque, Shuang Li will extend her exploration of intimacy and desire through the lens of subcultural circulation before the internet era, while interrogating the tensions between digital and physical realms beneath the façade of seamless connectivity. Drawing on her upbringing in a small town in southeast China during the 1990s and early 2000s, when she first encountered emo and punk music through unofficial channels, she will collaborate with musicians to reinterpret these songs and produce new videos. The works developed at La Becque will engage with the residency’s cultural and geographical context, offering alternative modes of circulation and communication.

Shuang Li, photo Majid Al-Remaihi