Li Ning | Visual Artist & Photographer in Vancouver

Transfiguration

Transfiguration is artist Ning Li's meditation on life — the inner metamorphosis she has undergone through self-searching and continuous reflection.

Faced with the turbulence and uncertainty of world affairs in recent years, she has felt deeply the weight of pressure bearing down on people in contemporary society. This has led her to observe, listen to, and reflect on the many phenomena of reality from multiple perspectives.

In traditional Eastern culture, Ning Li has found a path toward inner peace and wisdom, and she has transformed this understanding into artistic creation. Working across calligraphy, photography, installation, and digital art, she records details and objects from daily life that are often overlooked, revealing an "extraordinary beauty within the ordinary."

Through her work, she raises a deeply philosophical question: "Who am I? Who is I?"

This is a tracing back of identity and existence, and it is also the spiritual journey she unfolds through art — inviting the viewer to enter, alongside her, a space of introspection and awareness.

Curator
Wenli Yang

Opening: July 4, 2025，7:30 pm

Exhibition dates: July 4 – 18, 2025

Curator: Wenli Yang

Host/Organizer: Jig Space / Future Art Center

Artist: Ning Li

Exhibition venue:
106-8889 Laurel st. Vancouver BC Canada

Ning Gaze

The German thinker and representative figure of the Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, believed that the essence of photography is "the redemption of the instant" — that in the age of mechanical reproduction, it preserves an unrepeatable aura of time that would otherwise slip away.

The existence of "Ning Gaze" is like a laboratory for a "turn in seeing," dismantling the inherent paradigms of photographic art through the dimension of light and shadow. As a Chinese-Canadian artist and explorer and practitioner of cross-cultural vision, Ning Li's gazing, capturing, deconstructing, and reconstructing of light and shadow — along with her artistic creation and presentation — is like an experiment that opens up a matrix of time. This artistic unfolding, this cutting-across of fields, is, as Benjamin put it, a way of "linking the visible and the invisible, the instant and the eternal, East and West, in new and unfamiliar ways."

Opening: April 25, 2026, 15:00

Exhibition dates: April 25 – June 15, 2026

Curator: Fu Liming

Host/Organizer: Xu Liaoyuan Museum of Modern Design Art

Co-organizers:
Chengdu Wuyiwu Cultural Communication
XLY MoMA
LIPONT GALLERY
KIA Contemporary
EAST WEST Art Guide Center
Future Art Center Vancouver

Artist: Ning Li

Exhibition venue:
Chengdu, China · Xu Liaoyuan Museum · New Art Experimental Center, 1F