JOY LI, "The Skin of a Human Being: To the Most Beautiful", 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 24" x 29" - $4K Appraisal Value!
Description
   
 
"My project "The Skin of a Human Being" discusses how people fit themselves  into a ready-made world—playing predetermined social characters,  wearing garments designed by me for this project, and agreeing with social  constructs, which brings a sense of security through certainty, but also  creates restrictions. 
The title refers to the social skin developed by constant learning and imitating  existing examples of behavior. We are living under those social skins as  though living under others’ experiences.
The image in which I wear a golden frame with a golden apple hanging in  front of my head references "The Judgement of Paris", a story from Greek  mythology. Three goddesses within the myth compete for as being perfect  in the eyes of the judge, Paris, to win a golden apple, with an inscription that  reads: "ΤΗΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΙ” (“to the most beautiful”). To convince the judge, they  aim to make themselves desirable in his eyes. This golden apple not only  represents the impossible goal set up for females, but also reflects the desire  of males." - Joy Li
Joy Li is an interdisciplinary artist working with film, performance art, theater and sculpture. She was born in 1999 in Gansu, China. In 2021, she will receive her BA degree in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Theater minor at Maryland Institute College of Art. Li has already been included in various important exhibitions including “Communication Strategies: From Checkers to Complex Systems” at Time Art Museum, Sichuan, China, and “Redirecting” at Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China. She has had a solo exhibition at the Gateway Gallery in Baltimore, MD. In 2020, her first theatrical production “Collective Dreaming” was shown in BBOX, MD, and it has been written about by Laurence Ross in BmoreArt.
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Specifications of Piece
Artist:
Joy Li 
Title:
The Skin of a Human Being: To the Most Beautiful
Editions 1-3 of 3 + 1AP 
Dimensions/Size:
24" x 29"
Medium:
Archival Pigment Print
Year:
2019
Condition:
Excellent
Certificate of Authenticity:
Signed by Artist
Appraisal Value:
$4,000.00