Taiwan
1996
Li Hui, Chen (b. 1996, Taiwan) is a Taipei-based artist working primarily with textiles and soft materials. Her practice unfolds through installation and mixed media, focusing on the interwoven relationship between bodily perception and spatial experience. Through the tactile qualities of her materials and the sustained process of handcraft, she examines how individuals might re-establish a sense of inner awareness and connection to their surroundings within the accelerated rhythms of contemporary life.
Chen’s work considers softness and material sensitivity not only as aesthetic elements, but as temporal and relational gestures. The repetitive labor embedded in textile processes becomes a way of slowing down perception, creating spaces that invite viewers to attune to subtle emotional states and embodied presence.
Her practice extends toward multi-sensory engagement and inclusive collaboration. She has worked with visually impaired participants and participated in a tactile-focused art project in Japan, integrating non-visual perception into artistic discourse. Through these experiences, she reflects on how art can move beyond visual dominance and cultivate alternative modes of sensing and shared experience.
Chen has been an artist-in-residence at the King Car Cultural & Art Center in Taiwan, and her work has been exhibited at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB). She continues to investigate how material softness and embodied awareness can reshape our understanding of intimacy, perception, and relational space.
