Le Qi

Le Qi’s practice revolves around the encounter between personal memory and the physical realities of the body, articulated through A changing figure, slightly childlike and peculiar.

 

Moving between the real and the illusory, in Gannan Mountainous Areaof the white wild strawberry — a form of deep personal significance — as a recognisable motif through which she expresses an intuitive desire to explore the inner layers of past and present. In this process, desire is no longer a force of subjugation, but rather a vessel through which emotion is conveyed — the “flavour” of the white wild strawberry is offered to us as a sensory and symbolic experience.

 

This flavour evokes a distinctly feminine life-consciousness and the earthy essence of untamed nature: it carries the artist’s profound emotional connection to her native land, her reverence for maternal life, a longing for and re-engagement with childhood memories, and a piercing force that cuts through both the visible and hidden sides of reality.

Selected works

The Host of a Night, Oil paint, charcoal on linen, 97 × 67cm, 2025

We Are Set for a Morning Adventure, 153 × 212 cm, Oil paint on linen

The Waking of Insects, 60 × 81 cm, Oil paint on linen