Timjune Tianjun Li 李天竣


Current and Past Exhibitions

Performances
Projects


  1. Echo, Kaiku, Huisheng
    Free as Birds (2024-ongoing):

  2. Migrating (2024) 

  3. Imagine (2025)

  5. Those Who Flew Before Me (2025) 

  6. Lighthouse Polyphonic (2025)

  7. Singing Rizitika in Cloudcuckooland (2025)

    And I shall go, and the birds will continue singing (2025) hall I


  8. Today, Tomorrow, and the Tales from the Wind (2024    )

  10. Echo, Echo, Echo (2025-ongoing)
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  11. Breathe, and You Are Home (2026)

    i am (2026-ongoing)

    La Rotació Chorus (2025)    (() 

  2. From Aranya to Qinhuangdao (2022)  

  3. La Luna y el Hacedor (2020)  

  4. Village of Oblivion (2019)

  5. A Goat in Blue (2018)

     
Artist-in-Residence Archives

Breathe, and You Are Home (2026)
2-channel video and sound installation
4:30 min | Stereo sound

The artist and their mother use breath as a shared rhythm across borders and distance,
imagined as wind moving through geography to carry messages.




Installation view
Photographic Centre Nykyaika (FI), 2026
Tianjun Li (Timjune): Of WInd, Of Wing


Breathe, and You Are Home (2026)  centers on a form of breathing communication between the artist and their mother, recorded separately in China and Finland. Superimposed onto the mother’s silhouette, the artist’s body spins in continuous circles across unfamiliar landscapes, like a suspended migratory condition where return remains unresolved. Projected onto wind-blown translucent fabrics, the two figures appear to gaze toward one another across distance, as breath moves through the space like wind.

Immersed in breathing sounds, the dual-channel soundscape brings together contrasting soundscapes from the artist’s hometown,  from the Finnish Immigration Authority, and birdsong recorded in both China and Finland, responding across distance. The layers speak to the complexity of departure, the uncertainty of the migrant condition, the mother’s illness, and the gradual disappearance of the hometown amid tightening borders and ecological loss.

Breath appeared as a fragile but persistent connective tissue, an embodied archive through which kinship, memory, and survival continue beyond fixed geography and national boundaries.