Li Jinghu was born in 1972 in Dongguan, Guangdong, where he currently lives and works. Giving up the opportunity to work in Shenzhen, Li moved back to his hometown Dongguan in 2002. Over the past 19 years, Li has witnessed and captured the changes of Dongguan from a small agricultural town to a manufacturing hub in the Pearl River Delta. Li works primarily with sculpture and installation, through which presents an intertwining and ongoing personal ‘historiography’ of a landscape in flux – his poetically charged works frequently utilises humble materials gathered from his everyday locales. His practice seeks to both capture and transcend the line between collectivity and personal forms of expression. His work addresses issues about migrant workers, industrialisation, the world’s factories, and capitalism on the backdrop of modernisation, urbanisation, and globalisation in Dongguan and China.