Liu Shiyuan

Liu Shiyuan’s artistic practice spans many mediums, including photography, video, text, spatial installation, and stage plays. By eliminating preconceptions and subjective value judgments, Liu maintains a sensible and rational detachment toward the subjects in her works. Regardless of self-produced film and photography or images and cultural resources appropriated, Liu Shiyuan fully mobilizes and recontextualizes the suspended semantics of her objects. Through which, the artist asks questions about many aspects of the world recorded and engulfed in images, such as how images shape stereotypes, how they disseminate propaganda and the impact of pop culture on human perceptions and value standards. In a sense, be they pictures, texts, or physical objects, they are like actors to be directed and rehearsed by the artist to reactivate their original meaning and emotional potential and to construct new pictorial mazes, narrative puzzles, and intellectual theaters in their interaction with each other. Liu Shiyuan (b. 1985, Beijing, China) received her BFA from the Digital Media Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. In 2012 she graduated with a Master’s degree from the Photography Department of the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include CRISPR Whisper , Fotografiska , Shanghai , China (20 24 ) ; Optimized Heart: David Douard / Liu Shiyuan , UCCA Dune, Beidaihe , Hebei, China (20 23 ) ; Suspended Frames , WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China (2022); For Jord , Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2020); Opaque Pollination , Frost Art Museum, Florida Internati