“After studying fashion and textiles, Liu graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2024, positioning her as an artist with a deep background in the materials she works with. Her practice has paradoxically tried to counter visual-led aesthetics with an appreciation for the role that other senses, particularly touch, play in how we construct our comprehension of the world (Liu, 2025). The paradox is that her work is strikingly visual, luminescent, stimulating, so the question is whether she is actually championing touch or whether, by revealing the operations of the non-visual in a visual way, she isn’t doubling down on the primacy of sight.
Central to Liu’s work is what she considers a ‘crisis of perception’, the slow erosion of embodied experiences as contemporary life leans into virtualised, largely screen-based, flat visual symbols. In this view, the field of life has become a mediated intellectual exercise rather than one of resonant, critically physical, moments. Liu (2025) articulates this concern…”
