Taiwan to be Represented by Li Yi-Fan at the 61st Venice Biennale

Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) has announced that artist Li Yi-Fan will represent Taiwan at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, with Raphael Fonseca serving as curator for the exhibition. Fonseca, the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, will collaborate with Li Yi-Fan to explore the contemporary challenge of information and image overload. Their exhibition will examine the connections between humanity and technology and position Taiwanese contemporary art within the global digital context.

TFAM revealed that the exhibition, titled “Screen Melancholy,” will tackle themes of anxiety and uncertainty in the digital era. It will build on Li Yi-Fan’s use of image-generation technology and improvisational narrative to challenge conventional viewing methods. The exhibition invites questions on perception, subjective consciousness, and future human expression, especially in an age where information surpasses our comprehension. Li Yi-Fan’s work, akin to digital puppetry, questions knowledge and perception through pessimistic oral narratives, seeking to understand what it means to be “human.”