Lu Wei

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Liu Wei (born 1972, China) is an artist based in Beijing.

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including “21: World Wide Video Festival” in Amsterdam, “Cinema du Reel” at the Pompidou Centre [1] in France, “Over One Billion Served” at the Museum of Contemporary Art [2] in Denver and “Between Past and Future” at the International Center for Photography [3] in New York. He is represented by the Courtyard Gallery [4] in Beijing, Jack Tilton [5] in New York and Asian Art Options [6] in Singapore.

Liu Wei’s practice is uniquely varied. Working in video, installation, drawing, sculpture, and painting, there is no stylistic tendency which ties his work together. Rather Liu perceives the artist’s function as a responsibility of unmitigated, uncensored expression, tied to neither ideology nor form. Throughout Liu’s work lies an engagement with peripheral identity in the context of wider culture; his works often describe a sentiment of excess, corruption, and aggression reflective of cultural anxiety.