Jen Liu
I Am Cloud
Sep 17 – Nov 2, 2024
Opening: Saturday, Sep 14, 3.30pm – 6.30pm
Artist Talk: Jen Liu in conversation with Junni Chen
Saturday, Sep 14, 4.30pm – 5.30pm
The talk will be conducted in English.
Blindspot Gallery
15/F Po Chai Industrial Building
28 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
+852 2517 6238
Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pm
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Jen Liu: I Am Cloud, the artist’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery and in Hong Kong, on view from Sep 17 to Nov 2, 2024. The exhibition will present Liu’s recent and new bodies of work, which encompass videos, paintings, and mixed-media animatronic sculptures.
Jen Liu: I Am Cloud moves from the final chapter of Liu’s project Pink Slime Caesar Shift (2017-2023), marked by her film The Land at the Bottom of the Sea (2023), into a new group of work including the titular video I Am Cloud (2024) which will premiere at the exhibition. The gallery will analogously be divided into a dark and light room, signalling the change from ocean to cloud, liquid vaporizing into mist.
In this presentation, Liu draws upon research and non-fictional materials to create fabulated narratives that examine the virtualization of work – its realities, its speculative futures, and its historical precedents. The title evokes the Cloud, a cyber infrastructure which stores our memories and data, seemingly automated but in fact powered by an invisible soft body network of humans.
“We are bodies as contraband, women made of cloud. Do you see me now?” — Jen Liu
During the opening reception (Sep 14, 3.30pm – 6.30pm), Jen Liu will be in conversation with Junni Chen, Deputy Director of Para Site, at 4.30pm – 5.30pm. The talk will be conducted in English.
Featured image: If a Cloud Forms Around You, You May Feel a Tingling All Over Your Body by
Jen Liu, Acrylic ink, handmade mica-based acrylic paint, acrylic gouache, pulverized e-waste, and gesso on paper, 130 x 87.5 cm (work size), 137 x 94.5 x 5 cm (framed size), 2024. Courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery.
