Liang Manqi: Imaginary Practice

Contemporary by Angela Li presents Liang Manqi’s solo exhibition “Imaginary Practice”. After successfully launching her space project at Art Central Hong Kong in 2015, this year she will bring seven oil paintings and a site-specific space installation named Kate’s Space to her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Liang is currently based in Shanghai. After obtaining her Master of Fine Art degree from the CDK (Chinesisch-Deutshe Kunstakademie) project, a joint degree programme of the University of the Arts, Berlin and the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, she became a full-time artist.

In her works, Liang focuses on how space, media and colour convert their relationships between real and virtual contexts in polygonal dimensions. Hovering between abstract and non-abstract, rational and irrational, one seems unable to define her works from a conventional point of view. She creates via her cogitation a series of visual stimulations in the form of individual objects and mindsets, exploring the language embedded within these presentations.

In this exhibition, Liang creates a site-specific space installation, incorporating wall mural, paintings and three-dimensional objects in the gallery space. The installation forms a mind-like dimension, beckoning the audience to enter the realm of dynamics, experimentation and imagination.

By creating a layered and spatial realm of emotion on flat canvases, Liang utilizes the combination of fragments of colours as an exploration of a new three-dimensional space. The continuous regrouping of colours strikes a harmonious balance between the image and the space. In her new works, she introduces lines into the balance, further enriching the dynamics. The spread of lines into various spatial dimensions results in works of visual appeal and richness.