Honglei and Lily (Honglei Li, Xiying Yang)
are two contemporary artists of our generation who
represent the future direction of multimedia and
mixed-realities arts for our time. Their first-hand
experiences in Beijing for the greater part of their
youthful years and later in New York City are inestimable,
and bring a new vision to any society and institution which
they engage. Lily & Honglei draw their generation's
unique artistic expression informed by powerful eyewitness
experiences resulting from 'Tiananmen Incident' to
'September 11,' a generation whose psyches are indelibly
trapped in a struggle to make sense of a fractured world
and a future, which will guarantee independent thinking.
Lily & Honglei attempt to carve their personal path and
journey for freedom of artistic and intellectual
expressions. Their work asserts aspects of western fantasies
that are revealed as 'vacuous' when tested and that there
is greater need than ever before for truthful
understandings from both East and West as they enter into a
newly profound global relationship.
- Bryan McFarlane