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Xin Liu

Artist and engineer.

Xin Liu is an artist and engineer who creates experiences/experiments to take measurements in our personal, social, and technological spaces in a post-metaphysical world: between gravity and homeland, sorrow and the composition of tears, gene sequencing, and astrology. Her work resides between the measurable and ineffable, seeking tensions and reconciliations at macro- and micro-scales beyond our daily experiences. Her recent research and interest centre around the verticality of space, extraterrestrial explorations, and cosmic metabolism: the metabolism of our planet and how it has been affected by technological infrastructures in the past few decades.

Still from The White Stone (2021), Xin Liu, Digital Video, 21’57
Exhibition Installation, Gleaming Bodies, Sapporo International Art Festival. Photographer Tsubasa Fujikura