Liao Fei: Seeing All Forms

This solo exhibition is the artist’s most comprehensive institutional show to date, featuring key early works in sculpture, installation, and video alongside recent series exploring matter, perception, and logic.

Organised around five themes—matter, site, extension, infinity, and inference—the exhibition spans nearly two decades of Liao’s practice. Early works examine material relationships and physical states in flux, while newer series such as “Chiral Extent”, “One Way Sculpture”, and “Partially Obscured Circles” reflect a shift toward formal experimentation and abstraction.

Highlights include “Move No. 1” (2013), where ice blocks melt between stacked chairs, and “A Transitory Vacuum Sculpture” (2015), a fragile line assembled from toilet plungers. These works explore transformation, balance, and entropy. “Signal” (2015) maps a cycling route guided by fixed rules, revealing order within constraint.

Later pieces such as “Infinite, Natural Typography 1” (2017/2025) and “One Way Sculpture 1–4” (2017–2022) investigate geometric systems and spatial logic, while “Extended Dotted Line” (2016) and “Winding Curve” (2018) reflect on the relationship between human action and natural order.

The exhibition concludes with recent works from “Partially Obscured Circles” and “Chiral Extent”, where minimalist forms and material structures generate abstract visual rhythms. “Chiral Extent” draws on hand gestures and Chinese seal script to examine how bodily experience informs perception.

Curated by Neil Zhang, the exhibition title, drawn from the Diamond Sutra, suggests a link between form and matter, intuition and logic. The gallery’s open layout, created by removing interior walls, mirrors this inquiry.