Jen Liu, If a Cloud Forms Around You, You May Feel a Tingling All Over Your Body, 2024, Acrylic ink, handmade mica-based acrylic paint, acrylic gouache, pulverized e-waste, and gesso on paper, 135 x 87.5 cm (work size)
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present "Jen Liu: I Am Cloud”, the artist's debut solo exhibition at the gallery and in Hong Kong, on view from 17 September to 2 November 2024. The exhibition will present Liu’s recent and new bodies of work, which encompass videos, paintings made from pulverized e-waste, and mixed-media animatronic sculptures.
“Jen Liu: I Am Cloud” moves from the final chapter of Liu’s project Pink Slime Caesar Shift (2017-2023), marked by her film The Land at the Bottom of the Sea (2023), into a new group of work including the titular video I Am Cloud (2024) which will premiere at the exhibition. The gallery will analogously be divided into a dark and light room, signalling the change from ocean to cloud, liquid vaporizing into mist.
In this presentation, Liu draws upon research and non-fictional materials to create fabulated narratives that examine the virtualization of work - its realities, its speculative futures, and its historical precedents. The title evokes the Cloud, a cyber infrastructure which stores our memories and data, seemingly automated but in fact powered by an invisible soft body network of humans.
"We are bodies as contraband, women made of cloud. Do you see me now?" — Jen Liu
During the opening reception (14 Sep, 3:30 – 6:30 pm), Jen Liu will be in conversation with Junni Chen, Deputy Director of Para Site, at 4:30 – 5:30 pm. The talk will be conducted in English.
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