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Artists

Liao Wen

b. 1994 Chengdu; lives and works in Hong Kong.

Liao Wen is an artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance, and video. Her work is deeply informed by the body, exploring the tension between vulnerability and resilience, and the forces that shape physical and emotional experience. Early experiences with making marionettes inspired her interest in the subtle dynamics of movement and constraint, emphasizing how fragile structures can also demonstrate endurance. Liao often engages with themes of gender and cultural ritual, investigating how embodied experience intersects with natural and social cycles. Her work reflects on the complexities of female experience in particular, examining the interplay between strength and fragility, and the nuanced roles women occupy within historical and cultural narratives. Across her practice, the conceptual impulse and rigor is coupled with a sensitive attention to materiality, crafting forms that resonate with both physical presence and metaphorical significance. Her work occupies the thresholds of balance, life cycles, and the entanglement of personal and collective histories.

Liao Wen's recent solo exhibitions include Trust Fall, MACA Art Center, Beijing (2025); By devouring it, I learn about the world, Capsule Venice, Venice (2024); Almost Collapsing Balance, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai (2024); and The Body Knows Silently, Cai Jin Space, Beijing (2021). Selected group exhibitions include Moore's Vision, More Revisions, British Council, Hong Kong (2024); Clear History, Perrotin Paris, Paris (2024); One Way Ashore, A Thousand Channels, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou (2024); Durian · Durian, The First T-SEA Triennial, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou (2023); Bodies and Souls, Cassina Projects, Milan (2023); Durian on the Skin, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2023); BOOMERANG, OCAT Biennale 2021, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen (2022); 2nd Women Artists International Biennial of Macao, Macao (2022); On the Road, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen (2022); and She Says, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu (2021).

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Exhibitions