WORKS
LI HANWEI
Li Hanwei(b. 1994, Xuzhou, China) graduated from Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts with a degree in Photography in 2018. His practice spans video, installation, painting, performance, and curatorial projects. Li’s work engages with the shifting emotions and structures within the Chinese internet environment. Drawing on advertising narratives, aesthetic packaging, and platform culture, he transforms these charged social mechanisms into concrete visual and spatial experiences. Most recently, he has advanced a body of painting experiments through the use of artificial intelligence and 3D printing, where efficiency, repetition, and erasure are translated into the material traces of images, reflecting the collective psychology of the digital age.
In addition, Li Hanwei is a co-founder of Slime Engine(www.slimeengine.com), an online contemporary art platform established in 2017 with Liu Shuzhen and Fang Yang. The collective develops experimental exhibitions in virtual space and hybrid projects in physical sites, building a network of emerging artists and reimagining digital public space as a participatory arena.