Liu Hsin-Ying – Meeting Her Gaze Again

Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) is pleased to announce Meeting Her Gaze Again, a solo exhibition by Liu Hsin-Ying, on view from 31 July to 05 September 2026 at the gallery’s Kuala Lumpur space at APW, Bangsar. Bringing together new paintings and ceramic sculptures, the exhibition unfolds within a fluid space where body, landscape, memory and imagination quietly dissolve into one another, creating an emotional environment shaped by water, dreams and feminine perception.

In Liu’s paintings, lakes, seas and undefined landscapes become psychological spaces where inner emotions and external realities intersect. Spirits and animal-like beings surface as subtle reflections of intuition, memory and emotional states that resist direct language. Rather than separating reality from fantasy, Liu allows both to coexist within the same visual field, where abstract colours, organic textures and flowing forms evoke sensations of intimacy, vulnerability and transformation.

Extending the painted worlds into physical space is a series of small ceramic sculptures. These spirit-like figures appear as fragments or companions emerging from the canvases, inhabiting the shifting boundary between the real and the imagined. Moving projections of ocean waves and flowing water will be cast onto the exhibition walls, surrounding the ceramic figures as though they exist within a living sea.

Central to Liu’s practice is a non-focal mode of viewing. Rather than organising the image around a single point of attention, her paintings unfold as perceptual fields in which colours, forms and fragments coexist without hierarchy. Viewers are encouraged to drift through the compositions intuitively, navigating by sensation rather than following a predetermined visual path, a sensory wandering that mirrors the fluid nature of memory, dreams and bodily perception at the core of her artistic language.

Meeting Her Gaze Again invites viewers into a contemplative landscape where boundaries become permeable: between body and environment, dream and memory, tenderness and uncertainty. Rather than arriving at a fixed meaning, viewers are invited to wander, linger and experience the works through shifting sensations, memories and associations.

Liu Hsin-Ying (b.1991, Taiwan) was trained at the Art Students League in New York in 2013 and at the Department of Fine Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, graduating in 2015. She works in a variety of medium and approaches such as painting, drawing, video and performance art, drawing inspiration from the personal and cerebral.

She received Honorable Mentions at the Kaohsiung Awards in 2019 and 2022, the Outstanding Art Prize from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2015, and was an artist in residence at the Open and Fun Art Village Residency, Shanghai, China.

Solo exhibitions include: Meeting Her Gaze Again (2026), Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; On bare land (2024), Richard Koh Fine Art, Gillman Barracks, What There Looks Like (2021), Richard Koh Fine Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, and S.E.A. FOCUS (2020), Gillman Barracks, Singapore with Richard Koh Fine Art.

She is currently based in between Kuala Lumpur and Taipei.