OUR GOD IS GREAT #21
Liu Xi (China)
- Ceramic with gold chroming
- Modelled
- Reduction firing at 1350º C
L’obra en paraules de l’artista:
Vaig néixer dona en un petit poble del nord de la Xina envoltat d’una profunda influència del confucianisme. Part d’aquesta influència va ser una disparitat entre les estructures de poder d’homes i dones. La inferioritat es va inculcar des de la infància.
La desigualtat va frenar el meu creixement individual fins que vaig començar a treballar en contra d’aquelles maneres obsoletes i vaig emprendre un viatge d’auto descobriment.
L’art ceràmic em va concedir la llibertat d’expressió que buscava.
You choose The public award!
liu xi
“…El fang i jo vam trencar les convencions i, a poc a poc, em vaig empoderar.”
Liu Xi was born in 1986 in Shandong province, China. After graduating from the Sculpture Department in the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Liu Xi moved to Shanghai and set up her studio there.
Constantly experimenting with the technical and aesthetic limits of ceramics and the material possibilities of clay and glazes, Liu explores themes of sexuality and gender, self-discovery, identity and freedom.
She has taken part in numerous exhibitions in China and abroad including Portugal, Norway, Spain, Korea and the United Kingdom. Her works have been included in various international ceramics biennales where she has won numerous prizes. She actively participates in residency programmes in Bali, Taiwan, India, Mexico and Yixing.
