CRISPR Whisper by Liu Shiyuan at Fotografiska Shanghai

The exhibition features photography series and video works, encapsulating the artist’s creative journey over the past decade.

Overview

If everything can be edited, how would you perceive the world? Spanning photography, video, text, spatial installations, and stage plays, Liu Shiyuan's artistic practice reveals a profound exploration and interrogation of the intricate interplay between images and narratives.

CRISPR Whisper brings the five series artworks from the artist’s earlier creation to the latest works, including an early work A Conversation with Photography, the photographic and digital series A Shaking We, the series Almost Like Rebar, her latest series of photographs Cold-Blooded Animals, and the latest creations also include the film For the Photos I Didn't Take, For the Stories I Didn't Read. Within the multi-layered chaotic arena she constructs, we are invited not only to re-examine how images shape perceptions and implicit biases but also to delve into the multifaceted meanings and latent attributes of these images in contemporary society. The collage-like artwork from Liu Shiyuan is ultra-flat, allowing no singular truth to hide behind their surface, and densely packed with conflicting visual information, inviting viewers to engage in multifaceted interpretive practices. And within her complex visual information, viewers are invited to explore the delicate interplays between 'frames' in the construction of narrative meaning.