My works focus on film, sound, drawing and ceramics. Influenced by Asian folk culture, I'm interested in the expression of black humor with a stream-of-consciousness style, playfully commenting on the chaos and restlessness of social realities. By shooting daily life scenes, combined with carefully selected ready-made products in line with the fictional plot, I'm mapping the ideology and stereotypes brought by history, nationality, and memory. In my film, I probe the imagined interior and exterior with a highly charged visual language and insists on responding to the division of the contemporary world below secular life in this land. I'm trying to envision the notion of "global-local" in secular and matter-of-fact language that poignantly points out the existing conflicts between the conservatives and liberals, the elites and the grassroots, as well as the reflexivity of ideology and their unanimous idleness in reality. By blurring the boundary on the notion of region and time, it demonstrates the core values and violent essence of the emergence of a modernization process serving the rule and national development.
About the Artist
Liu Yefu focuses on film, sound, ceramics and drawing. Influenced by Asian folk culture, Liu is interested in the expression of black humor with a stream-of-consciousness style, and playfully comments on the chaos and restlessness of social realities. By shooting daily life scenes, combined with carefully selected ready-made products in line with his fictional plot, Liu mapping the ideology and stereotypes brought by history, nationality, and memory. Liu’s solo exhibitions including: Fool’s Paradise (Beijing, 2022), Hehemeimei, (Basel, 2021), No Easy Symbolism (Beijing, 2018), The First Episode (Beijing, 2016). His recent works have been exhibited at 25th Gabrovo Biennial for Humor & Satire in Art (Gabrovo, 2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2019), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, 2019), OCAT Museum, (Beijing, 2018), He Xiangning Museum (Shenzhen, 2017), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, 2017), Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017), YUZ Museum (Shanghai, 2016), Kimberly-Klark Gallery, (New York, 2015) among others. Liu is the nomination of Balois Art Prize (Basel, 2021), Huayu Youth Award (Sanya, 2016) and he is the finalist of Toby Devan Lewis MFA Fellowship (Baltimore, 2014).Featured Work
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