LIU Cong | The Long Now

In this exhibition, Liu Cong continues his long-standing exploration of “painting” as a mode of expression. After removing different means of expression such as pictorial depiction, narrative, and knowledge production, Liu chooses to use a variety of ready-mades as “models.” While emphasising the presence of the body, through the artificial “image-making” of these “objects” on canvas, along with detached reflection, he releases pictures with spiritual properties and gives them a perceptual tension. In describing the progressive relationships of “reality” and “sense of reality,” as well as “sensibility” to which the “sense of reality” extends and points, a metaphysical experience of the “atmosphere of existence” is achieved in the context of “human” that revolves around human emotions, states of mind, limitations, and the quest for transcendence.