Art Square and Neighborhood
LIU Jianhua
Two large pillows placed on Kanchogai Avenue seem to show traces of very recently being slept on. Passersby can sit or lie down on these pillows as benches. Surveying the street while relaxing on a pillow as if in one’s own room blurs the boundaries between the open space with people moving to and fro, and one’s private space, evoking a different scene, or flow of time, to usual.
Photo: Oyamada Kuniya
LIU Jianhua
Born 1962 in Ji’an, Jiangxi Province, China; lives and works in Shanghai, China. Liu launched his experimental artistic practice in the late 1980s, shifting his focus to “no meaning, no content” in 2008. One of China’s best-known contemporary artists working across a wide rage of materials, he has exhibited in a long list of international art exhibitions including the 57th Venice Biennale (Italy, 2017) and 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russia, 2007). His works are in the collections of Tate Modern (London, UK) and MoMA (New York, US), among many others.
2010
FRP
240×125×50 cm
Interview with Liu Jianhua（ PDF ）
Interviewer: Sayaka Mitome(Towada Art Center)
August 4,2023
