Changhao Li

頃刻 Transience is a photography project aiming to explore an aesthetic of the transitory nature. Inspired by the ideology of wabi-sabi, the project captures the weathering objects and landscapes to venerate impermanence and imperfections, as opposed to Eurocentric aesthetics favouring ideal perfection and eternity. 頃刻 Transience, through depicting temporality, proposes that such ‘flawed’ aesthetics of natural faults and transitoriness are considered monumental and worthy of preservation as they emerge from prolonged suppression. 

Changhao Li is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist and art historian on the academic track, pursuing a MA degree at OCAD University. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Art History degree from the University of Toronto. Changhao’s primary research interest is in East Asian aesthetics. His photographic works explore the Chinese concept of spiritual resonance in contemporary western art forms. While working with digital and analog mediums, Changhao inquires about the connection between liquidity, technicity and the predictive turn in Song dynasty Chinese Ceramics and contemporary photography.

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May 6th to May 28th, 2023
Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St, Toronto
Hallway Galleries, 2nd and 3rd floors

Artist Talk and Tour
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
11am & 1pm