Portia Yuran Li is a London-based Chinese artist, director, and Founder of Roarrr Theatre. Her interdisciplinary practice spans performance, sculpture, writing and socially engaged theatre. A member of the British Arts Network and London Arts and Health Forum, she is the recipient of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe “Keep It Fringe” Award, IC Award Nominate of Personal Achievement Award. Portia’s work engages deeply with mythology, trauma and embodiment.
Portia constructs fictional narratives rooted in research archives and East Asian oral traditions to interrogate geopolitics, intergenerational memory and identity conflicts. @portia__lee
ARTIST STATEMENT
Don’t Laugh (2024) London Science Gallery, London, UK
Commissioned by the 3rd International Oxytocin Festival, Don’t Laugh is a multidisciplinary work that integrates live performance, soundscape, installation, and sculpture. At the heart of the piece are the lived experiences of mothers from seven different countries, who were interviewed and gave explicit consent to have sculptural representations of their breasts created. These intimate forms are woven into a powerful collective narrative that confronts the hostility and digital violence often directed at women who breastfeed online.
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