Hong Kong's Rosanna Li

It's not a new concept to use art for the objective of sending a clear-cut message to society. Some artists make use of their craft to challenge stereotypical beliefs and behaviors about politics, age and culture. Rosanna Li Wei Han exhibits her public sculptures at the cityscapes of Hong Kong to showcase her own belief of challenging the views towards physical idealism in gender roles. As a retired professor of design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Li has years of experience dealing with the ability of art to capture people's attention. Her charming, yet simplistic sculptures defy the sexist concepts of "good bodily proportions" or anatomical "musts" often desired by society due to popularization in mainstream media.



Li's subjects are almost always human figures, both men and women whose phsyique tends to be more large-framed and hefty according to some observers. Some of her artwork series entitled “Men and Women ‧ This and That”, have prodded at society's grueling  definitions of how a human body should appear as. Distinctly though, she has also formed her pieces in such a way that they wouldn't appear offensive or strikingly apparent to anyone who either does or does not fit the proportions knelt on by those norms.







Her most famous sculpture is probably the permanent artwork situated over at Yau Tong Station, entitled People Passing By, People Lazing By. Her curriculum vitae showed us that she has also had an extensive educational journey throughout different countries of the world, including the Cheltenham & Gloucester College and the University of London in the UK, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Northcote College of Education.

Sculptures by Rosanna Li Wei Han, Photography by the artist's publications