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LIU YI 刘毅
b. 1990, works and lives in Hangzhou
LIU YI 刘毅
2015
4 minutes 30 seconds
Edition of 6 + 2AP
LY2_4381

"A Travel Inward" is a visual and imaginative deep dive, inviting the audience into a meticulously crafted, fantastical world of ink-wash animation. Through a unique perspective—like a turtle retreating its head into its own digestive tract—and employing the expressive medium of ink, it explores the intricate relationships between existence and emptiness, self and other. The piece unveils how individuals, amidst the repetition and nihilism of modern society, can discover breakthroughs and awakenings within their disorientation.

Many in contemporary society experience a persistent norm: an endless cycle of daily repetition in which we chase ideals or goals, yet often end up alienated from reality and disconnected from ourselves. The frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation technique offers a profound response to life's monotony, reflecting the oppressive repetition that burdens the modern human psyche.

Thus, like a turtle, she ventures into her own "black hole"—a digestive tract that is both real and abstract. In every ink-infused frame, where the ink flows and spreads like pen strokes on paper, the imagery constantly shifts and interweaves, as if narrating the fragmented inner worlds of individuals. These fragments collide and fold within life's torrent, ultimately converging at the end of the digestive tract to find an "exit." There, a moment of awakening and rebirth awaits…

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In Harmony With The Way, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai 08.18, 2024 -09.22, 2024
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Play and Loop IV, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong 07.16, 2022 -08.27, 2022
ShanghART Video Art Salon / Screening | Liu Yi Lin Yuqi Liang Yue, ShanghART Video Room Bldg. 8, West Bund, 2555 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai 03.03, 2018
Land of Plenty Song-cloud, Times Art Museum, Beijing 12.01, 2017 -12.17, 2017
Imagenation Factory, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou 09.29, 2017 -11.20, 2017
A Travel Inward - Liu Yi Solo Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai 02.10, 2017 -03.11, 2017
Fly without Wings – Video Exhibition, V Art Center, Sanghai 09.09, 2015 -10.18, 2015


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