Qiaoran Li is a visual communicator based in London, UK. After a few years of studying product design, her practice has expanded into storytelling across different visual media.
“My research explores the aesthetics of politics and entertainment within centralised communication networks.”
The globalised digital age, where images are fluid and changeable, is as liquid as capital, people, weather, data, energy and resources. However, capital and political power have existed in a centralised form, creating a contradiction between individual freedom and the control of power in contemporary society.
In the digital age, where images are fluid and changeable, the Chinese government is defending its political status. The political images that constantly stack and proliferate have roughly swept the public along like a storm, blurring away physical objects and physiological perceptions in the real world. They are insidious and fickle. It means that for propaganda to work most effectively, it can only do so by claiming to be what it is not. It hides in any form, easily and gradually eating away at people’s minds like an ulcer.
Based on this, I combine multimedia and images to achieve a narrative effect to criticize how the government shapes the political images as its strategy.
The globalised digital age, where images are fluid and changeable, is as liquid as capital, people, weather, data, energy and resources. However, capital and political power have existed in a centralised form, creating a contradiction between individual freedom and the control of power in contemporary society.
In the digital age, where images are fluid and changeable, the Chinese government is defending its political status. The political images that constantly stack and proliferate have roughly swept the public along like a storm, blurring away physical objects and technological and physiological perceptions in the real world. They are insidious and fickle. It means that for propaganda to work most effectively, it can only do so by claiming to be what it is not. It hides in any form, easily and gradually eating away at people’s minds like an ulcer.
