ARTS Southeast is pleased to host LI Hui HUANG in the on::View residency from
February 13th - March 7th, 2025
About the Project
During her Residency, Li Hui will continue work on 910 HIGHVIEW, the final work in her family soap opera series. It focuses on how historical/national narrations are formed and passed through family from the post-Cold War era through the present. Li Hui’s process is not only based on the dynamics between various ideologies and life experiences, but is also shaped by unconsciously transformed and selected memories. By collecting and recomposing the daily-life fragments, the artist catches a reflection of that obscure and paradoxical process.
“The home where my husband John (pseudonym) grew up is located at 910 HIGHVIEW (in GA). If my family came together because of the White Terror in Taiwan, then John’s family was formed along the development of the American aviation industry after World War II. Both situations have shown the impact of the Cold War. Sometimes there are tensions between us caused by our different interpretations of historical events. Take the B-29 as an example. In the United States it is a badge of war achievement, but in Taiwan it is a symbol of disaster from the sky. We each have an unseen inheritance from the war experiences of our predecessors. What lies behind the disagreements are the emotional and identity projection we each obtained from our own society and family, and I am trying to recognize them through this project.”
– Li Hui Huang
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 22nd at 2PM
Project Finale: Friday, March 7th from 5 - 9PM in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland
About the Artist
Li Hui Huang was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan and recently moved to Smyrna, GA. She received her MFA in Performance from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Li Hui Huang’s work in performance, video, and installation illustrates the complexity of various relationships and boundaries among people. Li Hui has attended Residencies at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei) and Apartment of Art (Munich). Along with solo exhibitions, her works have been shown in several group exhibitions in Taiwan (including 2016 Taipei Biennial), US, Germany and Mexico.
