Sai Li 李四海  

Sai Li (esSAI) was born in 1989 in Yunnan, China. She studied Social Economics at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany. From ages 19 to 28, she lived in Germany, a formative period during which she traveled widely across Europe and developed a visual and cultural sensibility shaped by mobility, observation, and close engagement with diverse environments.

Since returning to Shanghai in 2018, Sai Li has initiated a series of experimental art projects. Rooted in the ecological and sensorial memory of Yunnan and informed by her years in Germany, her practice unfolds through the interplay of vivid chromatic expression and dialectical thinking. Sai Li’s work explores the tension between untamed vitality and restrained order, situating these forces within a broader conceptual framework that spans nature, perception, and cosmological thinking, ultimately folding it back into the immediacy of everyday life.

生于1989年，来自云南，曾在德国埃尔兰根-纽伦堡大学学习社会经济学。19岁至28岁的德国学习生涯让她有机会在青年时期就游历欧洲及世界各地。自2018年回到上海，她不断发起多个实验艺术项目。云南的根和德国的生活学习对她产生深远影响。在她的作品里，浓烈色彩和辩证的哲思始终贯穿，她试图将野性的生命力与克制内敛的冲突与平衡之美置于自然与宇宙的广阔语境之中又回归到生活中。