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ONLY THE MEMORIES REMAIN 2015 - 2016

LIU HUITING


Only The Memories Remain 2015 - 2016

LIU HUITING


My creative experience, most of which has been the exploration of recollection, is the scenery of past life and always rests on my emotions. Moving from a small town to a city and now to a metropolis has had an important influence in my thought process. Strolling in the cities, seeing things quite familiar, my memories from the past are woken up. I often shuttle back and forth between concepts of ‘site’ and ‘memory’. Unexpectedly, they both meet at a place bringing together emotion and imagination becoming my primary source of inspiration. In the green series, the paintings have imagery of wall and water as the carriers of memory. Walls are rebuilt or repainted over and over again thickening the texture just like those memories that we still remember accumulate over time. Water is different; it has no trace, but its significance is in the flow, silently eroding everything. Just like those in the depths of the memory are nearly forgotten, but they impact subtly. I ground the memory in water in my childhood, and then I grow as my memories pile up. The river of memory is dyed green by time, which is the colour that time leaves, representing the continuation of life. Or, in line with the name of Sugimoto’s book Until it grows moss. In the series fear, loneliness, pain, the norms of traditional ceramics are challenged --- each work in this series is composed by several individual ceramic pieces instead of being just one piece. The inspiration for this approach comes from the kind of plastic insert toys, which can be randomly assembled into different shapes. My works can be taken apart and also be re-assembled into forming different sculpture each time, but because of materiality of ceramics, the assembling process becomes quite adventurous --- they may fall and break at any time because of imbalance. The difference between the plastic toys and my work can be seen as the distance between the ‘ideal’ and the ‘real’. The fragility of these pieces and the risk of them breaking during the process of assembling, resembles bigger aspects of life itself. Those ‘people’, who are seen swimming in the ceramic pieces, always keep a certain distance, which implies loneliness. The scattered needles that seemed to be pulled out one by one from the cactus, seem to symbolize pain itself.


GREEN Green

GREEN

‘Bury’, 2016 80 x 100 cm



‘Fall’, 2015 150 x 130 cm


‘Broke’, 2016 153 x 122 cm



‘Block’, 2016 153 x 122 cm


‘Debouch’, 2016 150 x 130 cm


I know that everyone is independent, I know that you will leave sooner or later, Suddenly, Even the shadow is gone, I cannot accept it, Escape, Run as far as possible, But how can I escape from the vortex of memory, No religion, no direction, no destination,

PAIN

A city of concrete, I am the one that is solidified, Even sleep is miserable, Cannot tell if it is dream or reality, No one knew how much pain I am in, Like a cactus without thorns, Perhaps she does not need thorns.

Liu Huiting 05-05-2016


In my parched memory, outgrowing a broken cactus, 2016 102 x 102 cm


Fear, loneliness, pain -1, 2016 90 x 100 x 65 cm




Fear, loneliness, pain - 3, 2016 150 x 55 x 50 cm


Fear, loneliness, pain - 2, 2016 90 x 100 x 65 cm


CIRCLE

‘Float', 2015 200 x 200 cm




‘Sock’, 2015 dimension variable



Flow - 1, 2016 60 x 80 cm


Flow - 2, 2016 170 x 130 cm


Flow - 3, 2016 220 x 180 cm


DECOMPOSITION

Memory, 2015 29 x 33 cm, 38.5 x 37 cm, 28.5 x 34 cm



Stories about becoming old, 2016 130 x 130 cm




'Decompose', 2015 23 x 30 cm x 6



Boxes full of decomposed memory, 2016 72.2 x 80 x 34.6 cm




LIU HUITING Born 1985 in Wenzhou, China Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

EDUCATION 

 2016 M.A.F.A., Chelsea College of Arts - UAL, London, United Kingdom

 2009 B.A., Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China 2005 Fine Arts School Affiliated to China Centre Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

EXHIBITON 2016 Summer Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, United Kingdom 2016 Bedroom Artists Group Show, the Hive, London, United Kingdom 2016 Summer Salon, Candid Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2016 "Soak"- Solo Exhibition, Punctum Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2016 Interim Show, Cookhouse Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2016 The Best Of Modern Contemporary Asian Art, RIS Gallery, London, United Kingdom

 2016 Conversation In Progress, Mills Centre Gallery, London, United Kingdom

 2015 Fly By The Seat of Your Pantsuit, Triangle Space, London, United Kingdom



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