Speaker

Liu Yujia, Zhaoyao

Responder

Fu Yuan

Host

Liu Tian

Introduction

Liu Yujia has a BA from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and an MA in fine art from the School of Communication, University of the Arts London. She currently  lives and works in Beijing. She uses documentary techniques to shoot scenes of ‘real life’, while also using ‘fictional’ or ‘false’ images to depict private moments of ‘real life’. Her recent work provides insight into the fictional and illusory aspects of social reality itself, that is, experiencing reality itself as a fiction. Liu Yujia has held solo exhibitions at DRC No.12 (Beijing, 2021), Surplus Space (Wuhan, 2021), Tang Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017, 2016) and Shanghai Gallery of Art (Shanghai, 2015). Her works have been exhibited at numerous art institutions both domestically and internationally. She was nominated for the 2018-2019 Porsche ‘Young Chinese Artist of the Year’ Award and ‘2022 OCAT × KADIST Emerging Media Artist Program’.

Zhao Yao was born in Sichuan in 1981, and graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004. He currently lives and works in Beijing. His solo exhibitions include ’51 m2: 3# Zhao Yao’ at Taikang Space (Beijing, 2010) at Beijing Commune in 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2022; ‘Spirit Above All’ (London, 2013), ‘A Painting of Thought’ (Pace Gallery (Hong Kong, 2015) ; ‘The Power of Nature: A Ten Thousand Square Meter Painting in Beijing’ at Workers Stadium (Beijing, 2018). His work has been shown at group exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (2010), Fremantle ArtsCentre , Australia (2011), Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2013), The Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2013), Pinchuk Art Centre,Ukraine (2013), ZKM Center, Germany (2013), UCCA,Beijing (2013), Boijmans Van Beuningen, Nederland (2014), ’Inside China’, Palais deTokyo, Paris (2014), ‘Adventures of the Black Square’, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2019).