Installation view ‘The Thin Place’. Zesheng Li, 2022-2025. Photo courtesy of the artist, photographer: Jiming Liu

Opening at Apsara Studio in London and curated by Ziyi Xiong, The Thin Place — a solo exhibition of Photography Artist Zesheng Li presents a series of photographs that unfold like whispered confidences—intimate, atmospheric, and unmoored from the urgency of explanation.

The Thin Place presents a selection of works created by Zesheng Li between 2022 and 2025. From the pilgrimage routes of the Camino de Santiago in Spain to the rural stables and cow barns of Wales, Li works with a slow, contemplative mode of seeing—attuned to fog, animals, stones, and open fields. These images function not as representations, but as apertures-gaps in the world through which one may sense the membrane where spirit and matter briefly align. 

Zesheng Li (Leezs) is a London-based visual artist and photographer whose work explores the intersection of spirituality, landscape, and the poetics of impermanence. His practice is rooted in a deep sensitivity to natural environments and a meditative approach to image-making. Fog and religious iconography recur throughout his work—not as declarations of belief, but as metaphoric thresholds that blur the visible and the invisible. Fog not merely as weather, but as metaphor: a veil that blurs the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the earthly and the divine, along with his encounters with animals such as cattle, sheep, and horses, form a visual language that is both grounded and ephemeral. Through careful observation, he captures moments where presence seems to hover between the seen and the sensed. His lens moves quietly through rural terrains, pilgrimage routes, and elemental spaces, capturing stillness that speaks of something just beyond reach. Zesheng’s work invites viewers into a contemplative state, one shaped by silence, patience, and a reverence for the unsaid. Through photography, he crafts spaces of reflection—where meaning is not delivered, but slowly unveiled.

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