YUELIN LI
Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement. Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement. Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement. Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement.

Yuelin Li is an artist working with movement, materiality, and impermanence. Her practice unfolds as a negotiation between forces—tension and release, dissolution and emergence, stillness and motion. She engages with automata and kinetic systems, where objects are not fixed but exist in states of flux, continuously shifting in response to their own internal logic.

Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, Yuelin Li investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, motion is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.

By observing how objects move—how they yield, resist, dissolve—she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors: gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go. These movements, fleeting yet deliberate, echo the transient nature of relationships—of presence that is always on the verge of absence.

Her works do not seek resolution. Instead, they dwell in contingency and impermanence, allowing movement to unfold as a process rather than an outcome. Objects oscillate between states of agency and surrender, forming a spatial and affective network where relationships are continuously reconfigured. In these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, Yuelin Li invites viewers into a state of attunement, where motion is not just a function but an exchange—an unfolding moment of presence, a quiet articulation of change.

EDUCATION
2023 - 2025
Parsons School of Design
MFA in Design and Technology
2018 - 2022
Tsinghua University
BFA in Art and Technology
EXHIBITION
2025
Internet of Strings, NYC Resistor, New York, US
2024
Stay: Round Trips to America from Asia,  25 East Gallery, New York, US
2024
ENTER here_, Grace Exhibition Centre, New York, US
2022
Graduation Exhibition, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CN
2022
Decision Boundary, Meta-Curation 10/N, online
2021
Hyper_Connection, the 10th Beijing International Design Week, 798 art district, Beijing, China
CURATION
2025
Intimate Aftergesture, 25 East Gallery, New York, US
2025
Welcome to Wherever You Are, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Australia
2021
New Media Strategy After the Goal of Science and Technology is Blurred, Lishui, CN
AWARD
2024
Parsons Graduate Student Research Fund, Parsons the New School
2023
Parsons Scholarship, Parsons the New School, New York, NY
2019
Recommended Curator, The Third International Photography Symposium
2020
Competition Grand Prize, Best Commercial Potential Award Work, Computing Contest-2020 WeChat Mini Program
2020
Finalist, NetEase MINIGAME 48 Hour Challenge
CONTACT
E-mail
liy818@newschool.edu
Instagram
@yuelinliii