July/August 2025: 'Fogged Mirror' by Sai Li

Fogged Mirror is an exhibit that explores the gap between the past and the present, the loss of identity post immigration, and what sprouts in its absence.

“What do you see when the mirror is fogged? Is that you? Or are you still trying to figure that out yourself? Is it still your hometown; your home country, when you became a tourist to it? Is the land in which you speak your second language your home now? Do you belong to one of them, to both of them, or to the gap in between them?”

Sai Li (multimedia artist) was born and raised in mainland China. She received her BFA from Tsinghua University (2012) and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2016). She currently lives and works in the Bay Area. Through a variety of art forms including drawing, comics, animation and illustration, Sai employs visual narrative as her primary method of expression.