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刘昕
Self Devourer, 2023年5月25日 - 7月1日

刘昕: Self Devourer

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作品
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Stray, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Stray, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Oblivion, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, silicone, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm

    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Oblivion, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, silicone, and steel

    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm

  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Free Fall, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Free Fall, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Maze, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, chains, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Maze, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, chains, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Energy, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, 24K gold, rose gold, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Energy, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, 24K gold, rose gold, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Womb, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Womb, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Memory, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm

    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Memory, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel

    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm

  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: In Full Bloom, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, 24K gold, rose gold, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: In Full Bloom, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, 24K gold, rose gold, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: The Spider's Trap, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: The Spider's Trap, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Horoscope, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, 24K gold, rose gold, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Horoscope, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, 24K gold, rose gold, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: The Missing Appendix, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm

    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: The Missing Appendix, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel

    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm

  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Menophania, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Menophania, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu Fortune Tellers: Tears, 2023 Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel 24 x 8½ x 7½ in. 60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
    Xin Liu
    Fortune Tellers: Tears, 2023
    Artist’s DNA data printed on rice paper, thread, acrylic, ink, aluminum, LED lights, latex, and steel
    24 x 8½ x 7½ in.
    60.96 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm
  • Xin Liu An attempt to touch you, 2023 Latex, acrylic, glass, aluminum, and steel 48 x 20 7/8 x 0 3/4 in. 122.00 x 53.00 x 2.00 cm
    Xin Liu
    An attempt to touch you, 2023
    Latex, acrylic, glass, aluminum, and steel
    48 x 20 7/8 x 0 3/4 in.
    122.00 x 53.00 x 2.00 cm
  • Xin Liu Self Portrait: Pesce Donna, 2023 Latex, acrylic, bronze, aluminum, and steel 50⅜ x 37¼ x 35⅜ in. 128.00 x 94.50 x 90.00 cm
    Xin Liu
    Self Portrait: Pesce Donna, 2023
    Latex, acrylic, bronze, aluminum, and steel
    50⅜ x 37¼ x 35⅜ in.
    128.00 x 94.50 x 90.00 cm
  • Xin Liu Twisted bones: A hug, 2023 Bronze and porcelain teeth 18⅞ x 16⅞ x 2½ in. 48.00 x 43.00 x 6.50 cm
    Xin Liu
    Twisted bones: A hug, 2023
    Bronze and porcelain teeth 
    18⅞ x 16⅞ x 2½ in.
    48.00 x 43.00 x 6.50 cm
  • Xin Liu When We Were All Flowers, 2023 glass, argon, mercury, phosphors, metal, wire, transformers 15 in x 70 in
    Xin Liu
    When We Were All Flowers, 2023
    glass, argon, mercury, phosphors, metal, wire, transformers
    15 in x 70 in 
  • Xin Liu To Become a Mother I Must Endure the Daughter I Am, 2023 glass, argon, mercury, phosphors, metal, wire, transformers 20 x 90 in. 50.8 x 228.6 cm
    Xin Liu
    To Become a Mother I Must Endure the Daughter I Am, 2023
    glass, argon, mercury, phosphors, metal, wire, transformers
    20 x 90 in. 
    50.8 x 228.6 cm
新闻稿

To create a being out of oneself is very serious. I am creating myself. And walking in complete darkness in search of ourselves is what we do. 

- Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva 

 

In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts. 

- Wallace Stevens, Parts of the world 

 

The collection of works on view in Self Devourer at Make Room was conceived during various points of the past two years. A scattering of moments and thoughts as I, along with the world itself, entered an unfamiliar, everything-doing-just-fine mode of being and living. I sensed a hint of repression. Every moment, every tiniest decision, every bit, byte and atom, can cause the most dramatic change. Yet, we glide through life. 

All humans share 99.9% of their genetic makeup and are within 50th cousins of each other. 

“Am I Asian American to you?” I once asked a friend of mine, a secondgeneration Asian American himself. “No.” He explained that I was not because I did not share the same kind of upbringing which formed a crucial 

part of his identity. Then I asked “How about your mother?” He paused for a few seconds, then looked directly into my eyes and said, “No, I guess she is not.” 

When I sequenced my genome in 2019, I was overwhelmed by the amount of data produced from a tiny droplet of saliva: 3,117,275,501 base pairs. How can one decipher something that large? 

There comes a point in life where one confronts their own triviality. A common story shared here: students studying abroad till their immigration, marriage and, perhaps, parenthood. I desperately, secretly, hoping to find something special, in the most literal sense, from within myself. Having my DNA tested was thrilling—a revelation of the most forbidden of secrets. I 

Sometimes I feel myself falling: a drop of water falls into the ocean. The sensation of disappearing gave me a peculiar sense of calmness. I was part of it. 

To grasp this idea, I made an accordion book that could extend however long needed while allowing me to meditate in the process of printing, gluing, rubbing, and folding. It ended up being a book of about one thousand pages of the tiniest letters that I could read with bare eyes. The volume and weight of these papers were my access to the spells contained in every cell of mine. 

Several years later, when I traveled back to the US after a long trip home, I felt this unshakable disconnect with myself. I struggled to recognize and locate myself among the various identities I am constantly obtaining and losing, and often wondered in my thoughts alone in the studio: an artist, a woman, an engineer, a Chinese immigrant, an Asian American, a daughter… 

Being an artist is quite consuming. The artist has an insatiable appetite. I realized I had become this relentless creature consuming herself. I had to cut her open for examination, for reassembly, for display. She is my only material. The only thing that is mine. 

That was when I dug out those papers I had made, the extra duplicates from the book of mine. Somehow, as I flipped through the pages, those unreadable bytes and bits were no longer confusing. These mysterious letters presented me with an opening: a slate of meaninglessness, of intuition, of plausible translation without understanding. And so I began to sew. 

-Xin Liu, May 2023 

 

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