Faculty of Design
Material Art & Design
Meet the Artist
Miao Xuan
Liu
Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles
“/From the black gulf explores the trickster archetype as cope, as praxis, as spiritual surrogate. As an archetype defined by multiplicity, shapeshifting, and transformation, the trickster occupies a position between realms and physicalities, a flux space simultaneously evasive and revealing. Built upon a Yellow Woman experience, the sculptural and alchemic capacities of clay are used to superimpose a world of illogic and suggestion upon our knowable one, devising an active mythos through which alternative modes of existence can be imagined. Making reference to Taoism, ecology, spirituality, Traditional Chinese Medicine, ontology, and the grotesque, this exhibition plays with a logic through which closed doors can be traversed, not by willpower or obedience but because the doors are now made of smoke. ”
Miao Xuan Liu (b 1998, Qingdao, China) is an artist based in Tkaronto.
University of Toronto
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Major Suspended
Textiles Sculpture Ceramics