Yushi Li – Baroness

Yushi Li – BaronessYushi Li takes us on a journey of desire, fantasy and looking, through a photographic study of the male body. For Lis debut book cover, the photographer has chosen a photograph of a penis. In a heteropatriarchy, where men are represented in the media as big and strong, here the penis is small, flaccid and trapped, presenting a playful, slightly violent, but gentle and almost comical gaze. Throughout the book, Li questions the gaze through different

Presented alongside twelve beautifully composed artist portfolios

The Archive of Dark is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included two seperate yet coherent exhibitions

gastronomic bread that is prepared in a thousand ways

exaggerations and obfuscations

English/French introduction

A perfectionist in the darkroom

and self-critical texts

Thomas Prior

Taking inspiration from Mirza Waheed’s novel The Collaborator

this scale reproduction is not simply a book

This open archive constitutes a subjective sum of the history of this singular Ballet

which were then cut out and stitched into a sprawling sculptural floorpiece