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Florilège: RUTH JU-SHIH LI

Past exhibition
13 March - 5 April 2025
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RUTH JU-SHIH LI Florilège I , 2025  Wax, cotton, sandalwood oil, found object  26x15x14 
RUTH JU-SHIH LI
Florilège I , 2025 
Wax, cotton, sandalwood oil, found object 
26x15x14 
Opening event: Thursday March 13th 6-8pm

MARS Gallery presents new work by RUTH JU-SHIH LI. A celebration of renewal, natural cycles of life and the passing of time, Li’s sculptures speak in the universal language of flowers. Giving form to deeply personal meditations, these chimerical microcosms of organic form are autobiographical, yet mirror and extend onward to consider the fleeting and transitory nature of the human condition.

 

Autobiographical in nature, Ruth Ju-shih Li’s Florilège series are ephemeral wax sculptures built around single cotton wicks perched on antique candle holders. Extending on Ruth’s ephemeral clay practice, this work is a venture into new ephemeral methodologies, materials, ritual, and performance. Stable until it is lit, each sculpture embodies a suspended moment awaiting its activation through the introduction of fire. 

 

Organic in form, the sculptures exist in a liminal space—neither purely flora nor fauna, releasing sandalwood scents that recall the artist’s childhood memories of her grandmother’s incense-filled home in Taipei. Utilising time as a material, the sculptures flourishes, fluctuates and decays. Each piece is a celebration of impermanence, renewal and the cyclical nature of life, embracing every season. 

 

Inspired by personal memories, familial ties and cultural rituals, Florilège speaks a universal language of flowers, exploring the fragility and transformation of existence. These temporary sculptures embody an ongoing process of becoming and its ambiguous ontological state of flux. Informed by her interest in articulating the complexities of her cultural identities, Li draws inspiration from the language of dreams and myths to examine cultural confluences as an inclusive language into the spiritual. 

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  • RUTH JU-SHIH LI, Florilège I , 2025 
    RUTH JU-SHIH LI, Florilège I , 2025 
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  • RUTH JU-SHIH LI, Florilegium II , 2023 
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  • RUTH JU-SHIH LI, White Fruit XVIII , 2024 
    RUTH JU-SHIH LI, White Fruit XVIII , 2024 
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