LiLi Nacht
Artist
Painter / Performer
Berlin based
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22/09/2023
𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚
installation view from 𝑲𝒂𝒊 𝑷𝒂 𝑻𝒊 exhibition July 2023
At the beautiful studios
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31/05/2022
Spirit Essence
oil paint on rice paper, time, sunlight
2022
08/01/2022
The Proximity of Touch
graphite on paper
Dec 2021
01/01/2022
hello from the studio
reinvigorated, rested, responding
Hope ya’ll are ready for this
Let’s go 2022 😉💥🐯
15/12/2021
everything we will say has been said before
pencil on paper
2021
new abstractions and subtleties
22/11/2021
“if you do it, do it with all your heart”
pastel and charcoal sketch on paper
November 2021
new abstractions and subtleties
02/10/2021
Excerpts from photo essay published in Daddy Magazine, our reflections following the Atlanta shootings earlier this year
❤️I stand by these words ❤️
This project came at a tender moment. It was the first time in my six years in Berlin to work with a group of people, ALL with Asian heritage.
We were a hodgepodge mix, many strangers to each other, but as we sat slurping noodles together during the break in between...talking about our lives and experiences in this city...there was a clear commonality- the continual confrontation with our identities (a grueling internal and external process). But when I see these images and hear these stories, I begin to see beyond to a place free of such preoccupations
Honored to be included in Daddy magazine’s second edition “Dreams” - a collection of writings, stories and images from local creatives/dreamers/organizers/activists. Support the effort and get your copy through the link in their bio! .berlin
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18/09/2021
“Rise of Venus”
sketch for painting
colored pencil on paper
2021
15/08/2021
painting sketches in soft pastel
circa 2013/14
Why is it that nearing the end of my MFA degree and after 6 years of studying at institutions of higher education across three continents, I still feel like I was a better artist before it all? Discovered these painting ideas from the beginning of my time in New York: 18-years-old, fresh-eyed, open hearted, hungry for experiences and full of raw untamed creativity.
What I would give to draw this way again...
04/07/2021
Today on the 4th of July, America’s Independence Day, it seems an appropriate moment to reflect on the idea of “freedom” in relation to the use of flag imagery by artists of different generations. The history of flag paintings/representations of the U.S. flag mirrors the tumultuous journey of this young country. From Jasper Johns’ mid-50s abstractions/material investigations to David Hammons’ piercing commentary on racial injustice in the late 60s/70s to Penny Monogiou’s present day lego filled plexiglass constructions (reflecting on consumerist/capitalist impulses), we find an underlining commonality within all the works: the desire to celebrate certain freedoms and simultaneously to remark on the suppression of certain freedoms.
Through these varying artists’ works, among many others that emerged in the pandemic year 2020, we can begin to piece together an understanding of “freedom” through these visual responses.
[Image 1]: Visitors in conversation at the exhibition “What Does It Take To Know Freedom?” by LiLi 丽丽 Nacht, 50 day painting performance, china ink on rice paper, pencil, charcoal, various pigments, 2020
[Image 2]: “Flag” by Jasper Johns, Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, 1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954)
[Image 3] “Injustice Case” by David Hammons, Body print and American flag, 1970
[Image 4]: “God Blass America!” by Penny Monogiou, Plexiglass, legos, 2020
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Video still from minidoc produced and filmed by G. Pebe for the exhibition “What Does It Take To Know Freedom?”
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Stay tuned for the full video, to be released soon!