Li Tingwei creates the narratives with complex structures, interlacing and juxtaposing events and mystifications, unwrapping many semantic layers.
Another term “doughnut economics”, excogitated in 2012 by the Oxford University economist, Kate Raworth, represents a visual scheme for a sustainable development. The inner circle includes everything that insures our social security foundations such as peace, health, justice and equality; the outer circle re-defines the goals in view of formidable global issues such as air pollution, ocean acidification, land conversion and freshwater withdrawals. Staying within these two circles promises the humanity the safe navigation through the deep waters of uncertainty. In the times when an image defeats a written word, one tends to sketch and illustrate the complex things.
In her video works Li Tingwei creates the narratives with complex structures, interlacing and juxtaposing events and mystifications, unwrapping many semantic layers. And what seems to be sometimes a Theatre of the Absurd, is a reality depiction in focus, and a thoroughly elaborated approach of working with various visual languages, textures and approaches of the perceptual psychology.