Panpan
LILI: Déjà vu
Site-specific installation
Senate House, London, 2023
Lili created by Tim Yip
pop-up installation and event initiated by Panpan Yang
Lili is a human-like, human-size sculpture created by Oscar-winning artist Tim Yip. Lili frequently travels with Tim Yip.
On May 4, 2023, Lili cosplayed a SOAS student. She was seated - not entirely comfortably - on the huge stairs of the Senate House, SOAS University of London. This was the second time that Lili visited SOAS: a moment of déjà vu.
Lili is forever 17. She is outside of clock time, yet her presence always initiates a form of small time, a micro narrative, a micro drama in our everyday spaces.
A group of students came to see Lili. At this site, Panpan Yang led an impromptu seminar, in which students discussed topics ranging from the idea of "the real" in Chinese painting to AI art.
As always, Lili made new friends.
Lili, preparing for the day. photo by Jiaqi Zhang.
Panpan Yang tidying up Lili's hair. Photo by Jiaqi Zhang.
Lili: Déjà vu, installation view, Senate House, London, 2023
photo by Jiaqi Zhang