Artist field note

Li Songsong

Painting history one fragment at a time.

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My Parents by Li Songsong
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My Parents

2013

Private family memory receives the same monumental, segmented treatment as public history. The archive moves home.

The five in one idea

Li slows photographs down until their authority breaks into parts; memory is never one continuous image.