Current Residents Jessie (Jiaqi) Li
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Jessie Li, When We Look into Each Other's Eyes, 2024
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Jessie Li, Free Corner Trading Trolley, 2025
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Jessie Li, The Second Hand Story Kitchen
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Jessie Li, Blowing Away in the Wind, 2023
Jessie (Jiaqi) is a Chinese art practitioner and researcher based in London, working at the intersection of human emotions, community narratives, and social systems.
Rooted in everyday encounters, her work weaves together personal memory, family archives, and historical research. She collaborates closely with local residents and artists, using interviews and fieldwork to build participatory, site-specific works. Drawing from the concepts of Public Intervention and Urban Room, Jessie creates spaces where marginalized voices can be seen and where silence becomes stories.
I plan to explore how cultural identity and belonging are carried and recreated through everyday life in the context of migration. Having lived across multiple cities, I am interested in how individuals reconstruct home through domestic rituals and portable memories.
I will develop a series of moving image works alongside a mobile installation. This installation will serve as both a sculptural object and a public intervention, carrying fragments of memory gathered from the site and its people, as well as archival footage from my hometown’s port and industrial landscapes—echoing across oceans and histories, folding one life into another.