Lili Chin is an artist and curator formerly based in New York City. Her films have screened at Pacific Film Archives; San Francisco Cinematheque; Labor K1, Berlin, Monkeytown; Platform China, Beijing; Millenium, NY; Anthology Film Archives, Aurora Picture Show and Massachusetts College of Art. She has curated screenings at the Orchard Gallery, Scanners Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives in New York City. She now resides in Southern California.

I think about architecture and scale to draw upon the personal, establishing relationships between audience, imagery and space while questioning physical and natural perceptions. Through constructed environments and site specific performances, I explore movement and the psychological boundaries or liberties that people feel in public and private spaces.

Theater and cinema provide a framework to engage with questions about reality, illusion, space and gesture. My work navigates a terrain where the relationship of objects become more important than any one object. In my practice, I gravitate to using ephemeral materials, such as ice and light. What results can be a film or merely a memory of an experience. The research begins on a phenomenological level, with the notion of Being as a touchstone. I am interested in a flattening of time to provide a return to primitive and intuitive thinking. My aesthetic uses a restrained and understated sensibility to encounter paradoxes and interruptions in the everyday.