Xi Li | Food in Films, Ads, and our Consciousness
Xi Li (Cici)is a photographer and multimedia artist from Suzhou, China, who is currently based in California, USA. Her photography works explore our perceptions of mundane everyday scenes and objects; her lens is calm and inquisitive. Cici’s love for food in their natural form prompted her to start Arbitrary Mealtimes, a project sharing recipes and delving into the visual imagery of food art and advertising. In this episode of Framing Visual Culture Podcast, we will explore our human relationship to food and culinary, visual connotations of food for men and food for women, as well as look at the ideas of future farming.
I graduated from Pratt Institute’s Industrial Design major in 2017, and soon after relocated to the Bay Area in California. Although I worked for a bit as an Industrial Designer, my passion was in visual image creation, so now I mostly live and create works as a photographer. My artistic practice is informed by the way people perceive modern life and culture, as well as the way images present and reveal themselves.
