Artist field note

Li Songsong

Painting history one fragment at a time.

Appears inChina
Young Man by Li Songsong
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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Young Man

2012

A found image becomes intimate through repeated acts of repainting; anonymity and attention pull against each other.

The five in one idea

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