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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Liu Wei
Liu Wei 劉韡
Landscape 風景
2004
After the 2004 Shanghai Biennale panel rejected several of his proposals, Liu Wei submitted this photograph featuring buttocks and body hair, which, to his surprise, was accepted. He went outside his usual preferred mediums of installation, painting, and video to create this seemingly classical landscape that mocks arbitrary institutional standards. Its monumental size and horizontal composition contrasts with the traditional handscroll in a literati context, where viewing is an intimate and personal act. Liu’s artistic practice is primarily concerned with the changing cityscape and contemporary issues stemming from globalisation.
Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk
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