HO Li
Taiwan/Taipei
Ho Li, born in Taoyuan in 1997, graduated from the Department of painting and calligraphy at National Taiwan University of Art and is a comic and art creator. She previously created comic works under the pseudonym Detective H.Z. but decided to focus on ink painting in 2022. Her ink paintings are characterized by a delicate personal style and distorted spaces, integrating ink, modern media, and contemporary issues. Ho Li’s work embodies a sense of freedom on the canvas. She believes that humans should be free, not confined to primal instincts or constrained by moral judgments of civilization. Instead, they should continuously explore and uncover the alienating shackles within civilization. When we are born, we are like wild beings; then we learn to enter society and become robots; finally, we must transcend civilization, break free from mechanization constraints, shed the limitations of personality masks, and become authentic, free humans again. This is one of the reasons why she has recently leaned towards contemplating freedom and society in her creations. For Ho Li, painting is a long process of perceiving internal contradictions, and there will never be an eternal, unchanging answer. She believes that creating art is not about presenting meticulous arguments or giving the world a correct answer; that’s the job of philosophers and critics. Artists don’t solve problems; they discover and pose questions, allowing people to think about their own answers.