Introduction

Li Hainan was born in Northeastern China in 1993 and currently resides in Shanghai, China, visual artist. He graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris DNAP and DNSAP (BFA and MFA), France, with an exchange visit (Erasmus+ Programme) to the Sculpture Department at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium, and a minor in Philosophy at Sorbonne University (Paris IV).

Relying on a variety of media such as installation and sculpture, Li Hainan intervenes and reconstructs images through a visually dominant artistic language, developing a critical and diverse social practice of political art. He is committed to deconstructing the 'truths' anchored and constructed in historical narratives with a new paradigm, attempting to knock down the framework of commonplace ideas through the strangeness of value anchors, thereby revealing the structural relationship between social territories and the economy under the wave of capital, and thus constructing artistic intuitions into new realities.