Corpus: Her embodied Archive
Artist & Works
Artist & Works
Yuchen Li （Moxi）
Yuchen Li, who also goes by the name Moxi—a gentle nod to the Japanese greeting moshimoshi, signifying a soft affirmation of presence—is a Chinese photographer based in London. She earned her BA in Visual Communication Design from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and her MA in Fashion Photography from University of the Arts London, graduating with Distinction across both degrees.
Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, including ITCD and the Beijing Fashion Week Photography Competition. It has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Pap Magazine, and was exhibited in several international exhibitions, like Edinburgh Fringe.
Inspired by the lyricism intrinsic to the Chinese literature and grounded in her research on trauma psychology, her work embraces restraint and emotional undercurrents as strengths—creating images that suggest rather than state, and invite rather than declare.
Her photographic style often employs a soft visual language to narrate those subtle pressures once imprinted upon her. Through her lens, she retells these experiences, transforming them as a balm, like white flowers blooming from healed wounds.
email:moximoxi20011011@gmail.com
website: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG8s8kta18/A9Og1n_GqYN6x_9mLFzg-Q/edit?utm_content=DAG8s8kta18&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
ins:@moxitophotography
RED:木兮木兮木兮木兮木兮
Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, including ITCD and the Beijing Fashion Week Photography Competition. It has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Pap Magazine, and was exhibited in several international exhibitions, like Edinburgh Fringe.
Inspired by the lyricism intrinsic to the Chinese literature and grounded in her research on trauma psychology, her work embraces restraint and emotional undercurrents as strengths—creating images that suggest rather than state, and invite rather than declare.
Her photographic style often employs a soft visual language to narrate those subtle pressures once imprinted upon her. Through her lens, she retells these experiences, transforming them as a balm, like white flowers blooming from healed wounds.
email:moximoxi20011011@gmail.com
website: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG8s8kta18/A9Og1n_GqYN6x_9mLFzg-Q/edit?utm_content=DAG8s8kta18&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
ins:@moxitophotography
RED:木兮木兮木兮木兮木兮
The shape of sadness(2025)
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The work originates from a farewell. When I had to say goodbye to the first cat I fostered after arriving in London. That cat represents the first time I felt a sense of “home” in this city, a fragile belonging that was formed only to be immediately taken away. That day, I took my face with polaroid.
For me, grief doesn’t have a clear shape, but a boundless condition that continuously pulls and tears. When my face picture is fractured and displaced with the body movement and the shaking light. In this moment, grief briefly acquired a fragile and unstable shape. At that moment, I feel: that’s it.
The work thus understands grief as a form of “bodily archive”. Unlike conventional archives that seek clarity, permanence, and reproducibility, grief can only be preserved through fragmentation, tearing, and continual transformation, repeatedly re-emerging through the body’s vulnerability and unevenness.