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.
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