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  • Aug 03, 2018

If Only the Cloud Knows: Interview with Li Shuang

Portrait of LI SHUANG. All images courtesy the artist.

Located in a basement in New York City was Shanghai-based artist and writer Li Shuang’s interactive piece, If Only The Cloud Knows (2018), an on-site installation accompanied by a website to which Li had uploaded all the text messages and photos on her phone from 2005–15, deleting all other copies. Anyone could then permanently delete anything on the website, whether from the computer at the gallery or elsewhere.