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Liao Wen

Wanderer, 2024- 2025 Limewood, stainless steel, polyurethane foam, sponge, wool blanket, elastic, spring, stanchion, human 95x167x92 cm; dimensions variable Supported by MACA Art Center - Non Fiction
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Wanderer, 2024- 2025 Limewood, stainless steel, polyurethane foam, sponge, wool blanket, elastic, spring, stanchion, human 95x167x92 cm; dimensions variable Supported by MACA Art Center
  • Who ?
    1994, Chengdu, China
  • What ?
    Sculpture, installation
  • Where ?
    lives and works in Hong Kong
  • insta
    @liaowenII

Liao Wen tire est une artiste qui tire les ficelles. Son travail est traversée par la question de la tension. Tension des corps, tension entre contrôle et vulnérabilité, tension esthétique entre le bois lisse qui réchauffe la chair et environnement contraignant en métal.

Liao Wen Tire is an artist who pulls the strings. Her work is permeated by the question of tension. Tension in bodies, tension between control and vulnerability, aesthetic tension between smooth wood that warms the flesh and a restrictive metal environment.

Trust Fall, 2023-2025 Limewood, stainless steel, nylon rope 340x450x120 cm - Non Fiction
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Trust Fall, 2023-2025 Limewood, stainless steel, nylon rope 340x450x120 cm

Liao Wen est partie d’une formation à l’art de la marionnette pour révéler son obsession pour l’art de la coercition, la discipline des corps, la relation insécure entre inconfort et protection. Il est question d’une certaine manière de biopouvoir, de gestion des corps et des espaces. Son esthétique se caractérise par une gamme de matières relativement stable (le bois, le métal) et une approche formelle simple et efficace, minimale bien que figurative, futuriste. Futuriste par son imaginaire mais aussi par son approche du mouvement mécanique des corps. Dans ses sculptures il est question de point de chute ; de figer un moment de bascule prêt à outrepasser les limites du corps. L’oeil de la sculptrice se fait alors photographe, suspendre le temps, retenir son souffle dans le silence de l’image. De la danse on en retient aussi une approche de la sculpture par le vide. Les corps se courbent, tournent, tombent en relation avec des structures, souvent métalliques.

Liao Wen began with training in puppetry to reveal her obsession with the art of coercion, bodily discipline, and the uneasy relationship between discomfort and protection. In a way, it is about biopower, the management of bodies and spaces. Her aesthetic is characterized by a relatively stable range of materials (wood, metal) and a simple and effective formal approach that is minimalist yet figurative and futuristic. Futuristic in her imagination, but also in her approach to the mechanical movement of bodies. Her sculptures are about the point of impact; freezing a moment of transition ready to exceed the limits of the body. The sculptor’s eye becomes that of a photographer, suspending time, holding its breath in the silence of the image. Dance also provides an approach to sculpture through emptiness. Bodies bend, turn, and fall in relation to structures, often metallic.

Hesitation, limewood, silicone, ruby 106 x 45 x 91 cm 2021. Photo. Ling Weizheng ; Courtesy: The artist and Capsule Shanghai - Non Fiction
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Hesitation, limewood, silicone, ruby 106 x 45 x 91 cm 2021. Photo. Ling Weizheng ; Courtesy: The artist and Capsule Shanghai

Les marionnettes échelle une de Liao Wen sont relativement décharnée mais pas morbide. Elles sont étirées au point de mettre mal à l’aise. De nous positionner en voyeur*ses de l’intimité d’un corps sans vie. Revenir à la marionnette pour comprendre son travail est clef. Il s’y joue des questions d’articulation et d’emboîtement, de traversée des chairs inertes, de manipulation et de récits aigre doux.

Liao Wen’s life-size puppets are relatively emaciated but not morbid. They are stretched to the point of making us uncomfortable. They position us as voyeurs of the intimacy of a lifeless body. Returning to the puppet to understand her work is key. It plays on questions of articulation and interlocking, of traversing inert flesh, of manipulation and bittersweet narratives.

Resist, Hand-colored limewood, Rupert’s tear shape glass, stainless steel, wire 55 x 114 x 68 cm 2022. Photo. Paul Salveson ; Courtesy: The artist and François Ghebaly, Capsule Shanghai - Non Fiction
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Resist, Hand-colored limewood, Rupert’s tear shape glass, stainless steel, wire 55 x 114 x 68 cm 2022. Photo. Paul Salveson ; Courtesy: The artist and François Ghebaly, Capsule Shanghai
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