Li Liao：Anacatesthesia

From June 20 to October 11 2020, Qiao Space holds Li Liao’s solo exhibition Anacatesthesia. In this exhibition, Li Liao first time brings his new series which called “I Don’t Know”. On the opening day, there is also a live performance curated by the artist himself.

Li Liao presents a series of real life situations mixed with artistic actions. Through his often allegorical and self-deprecating action strategy, Li Liao takes the initiative to set up or take advantage of a situation to reveal his concern for the real problems that plague society, applying “communal participation” to practicing what he preaches in micro-level social systems and under concrete circumstances. In this process, he also observes and questions the evaluation mechanisms and rules for family production, social production and artistic production and attempts to provide a set of playful strategies to deal with stress, thus evoking a rethinking of experience.

In 2019, Li Liao started the new series “I Don’t Know”. As he said, sometimes it’s not always clear why you’re doing something, and there are a lot of things you don’t have to express. If, in his previous creations, Li Liao knew exactly what he was going to do, then this new series “I Don’t Know” is a contrast to his previous creations. This series brings a kind of boundless thought under the urban background, at the same time, it contains a lot of unexpected coincidences.

Li Liao was born in Hubei China, 1982. Graduated from Hubei Fine Arts Institute in 2005. He currently lives and works in Shenzhen. His works have been exhibited at TANK Shanghai, Shanghai 2019; Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt 2019; National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome 2019; Times Art Center, Berlin 2018; Times Museum, Guangzhou 2017; Centre National d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris 2017; Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai 2016; New Museum, New York 2015; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai 2013; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2013.