Liu Xuguang

Liu Xuguang, born in Beijing in 1958, Liu Xuguang, a Ph.D graduate in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, currently works as a professor at the Beijing Film Academy.

Liu Xuguang’s art practice tries to predict the omens and fortunes of our existence amid our impermanent life. By adopting strategies of arriving, perception, and position, Liu Xuguang highlights the weightlessness, constraints, and anxieties between the celestial and the worldly. Through this solo exhibition, spectators are encouraged to discover and realize the visible and invisible “fields of diffraction” in his artworks through the vicissitudes of history, geography, and culture. The light that illuminates fate is where “darkness” arrives at itself, prompting us to reflect on, question, and explore our living conditions even without knowing where we are. As the Ming Dynasty poet Qian Zai wrote in the poem Passing by the Fields and Houses of Southern Town, “A lifetime between heaven and earth passes, a time marks past and present.”