Artist Statement/ Biography

Lily Jue Sheng combines cinematic assemblage, craft, and poetics into a kind of embodied aesthetic that speaks beyond a particular logic. Sheng often uses personal voice and writing to sort through the noise of language attrition, code-switching, and place attachment. Their films take an antithetical, anti-theoretical approach to storytelling, preferring instead to give texture to everyday surroundings and time.

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Lily Jue Sheng is a moving image artist working across film, animation, collage, text, performance, and 2D mixed media. They were born in Shanghai, and raised/based on Lenapehoking, the lands of the Lenni Lenape known as New York City and New Jersey. Their most recent film premiered at 25 FPS Festival in Zagreb, Croatia, and is in upcoming programs at Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) and McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. They have performed at Knockdown Center, The Poetry Project, and Roulette Intermedium locally, and screened at Images Festival, Winnipeg Underground Festival, and the former Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC) internationally.