My Gallery NYC is pleased to present The Trees Are Naming

Themselves, an exhibition of new large-scale mixed-media works by Fei Li. Drawing

from mythology and the interconnections between diaspora and memories, this series

explores the poetics where ancestral voices and botanical spirits coalesce through

labyrinthine structures that defy the boundaries of landscape painting. Through the

series, she asks: Can the language's limit, function in the way a tree might?

Rooted in recollections of her childhood in the ancient town of Minnan, China, Li's work

embodies an enduring respect for spaces where deities, ancestors, and the living share

sacred ground. In a time when humanity struggles to find agency amid sweeping

historical shifts, Li's art emphasizes the connective power of ritual and its role in bridging

generations, carrying both trauma and resilience forward.

Echoing Zagajewski's refuge in bells, Li envisions we shelter within trees, coursing

underground through their torrential veins, beneath the soil, beneath the rumble of trains

where a woman naps on her way home from a night shift; beneath the rising mist from

rice cookers; toward seeds humming under the grief of morning frost; toward the moon

of refusal; beneath words drowned in the shipwreck; beneath rotten landmines; beneath

the watchful eyes of border officers; beneath riverbeds hiding long-lost coins marked

with empires' face; beneath the fractured walls of mega-prisons. Return, return to the

flicker of a moth's wing, to Baba Yaga's house with its defiant chicken feet, to Nüwa's

breath sealing the sky, to the bones of moss, to Patala, to the Gumiho, to The Serpent

Spirits' enduring gaze. Beneath the factory's roar, steeped in the memory of ancient

coral, beneath the temple's bell, under the poet's window where time's hinges have

given way—mothers await in roots, those hidden harbors and deep, braided paths.

Fei Li is an interdisciplinary artist born in Minnan, China, and based in Brooklyn. Li's

recent project was granted the 2024 & 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund and LP's Create and

Reconnect Grant. She is also the awardee of numerous funded artist's residencies,

fellowships, and grants, including the 2023 Create Change Fellowship of Laundromat

project, the Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency for a Visual Artist at Yaddo, Jon

Imber Painting Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center; City Artist Corps Grant and

Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant. She founded Accented Projects for collaboration,

experimentation, and community building.

Opening Reception: Friday Dec 6th 2024, from 6:00-9:00PM.

Public Ritual: Friday Dec 6th 2024, from 7:00-8:00PM

Gallery Hours: 2:00-8:00 pm

Location :MY GALLERY NYC. 587 Franklin ave. Brooklyn . 347446 5837 www.mygallerynyc.com.

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