Yizheng Liu has been exploring and experimenting between mixed materials, different media and multiple experiences. Through the different combinations and collisions of multiple materials that go beyond the norm, she experiments with visions and perceptions. Yizheng's three-dimensional type works combine flat painting and printmaking with sculpture presenting a certain flatness, but at the same time presenting a multi-layered depth. Her works also differ from the traditional sculpture independent of space. Yizheng Liu is more concerned with the relationship between the works and space and uses the whole space of a canvas to construct works so that each present rich possibilities in spatial presentation. She also tries to dissolve the solidity of traditional sculpture in order to form an immediate combination of her own system and the new environment.
Yizheng Liu
The city is often thought of as a human-made thing that has no connection to the natural world. The story of a city is always about how people interact with each other, not how people interact with the rest of the world. The city is thought of as a collection of buildings, streets, political assemblies, factories, and the labor conflicts that happen inside it. People from different communities meet and mix together in these places. Few people regard the city as a place where rivers flow, plants grow, microbes spread, energy is used, materials are exchanged, and the health of the ecosystem is linked to the health of people. As a result, I have frequently considered restoring the city to nature, or bringing nature into the city, and viewing the city as an organism in which human and natural ecosystems coexist, interact, and evolve.
These works are the reflection of my understanding of the relationship between ecology and the city. People often regard the city and the natural ecology as two isolated subjects, but I think the city should be treated as an organism where human society and ecosystem are integrated. Therefore, I’ve been trying to integrate man-made elements into the natural environment by presenting both elements of contemporary cities and ecological elements of nature in the same picture, so as to create a new narrative space.