Casey Li is a research fellow in the Department of Photography at MoMA, where she conducts object and provenance research on the collection. Previously, she has supported temporary exhibition and the accompanying catalogue Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue (2024-25), as well as collection gallery Dance Index (2024-26). Her writing has appeared in Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection (2025) and on moma.org. Outside of the museum, her research focuses on cross-cultural aesthetic productions in modern East Asia, especially as they relate to intellectual histories and compounding legacies of imperialisms in the region.
What does it mean to make work that necessarily includes others? To commit to decades-long collaboration? To submit oneself to change under the influence of nature? These are the questions that underpin the work of the artist collective RongRong&inri, currently based in Kyoto, Japan. In 2000, RongRong (b. 1968, Fujian Province) and inri (b. 1973,…
