- Yi Chen Liao
Animation
Design
Handmade
Pottery
Painting
Exhibition
About
Solo Exhibition, 2025, Berlin, Germany
「I remembered that over the past few years, I always felt that I had no head and wanted to find my lost head.」
There are too many illusions, so they need to be utilised, or perhaps the illusions are using me as a medium to convey intentions and messages. Every piece of work is very simple to me: 'I draw what I see.'
This 'seeing' is not limited to the scenes received by the retina; it includes vague images in the mind,
the sensations of the skin, the imagination of some organ tightening, and the fragments of language flooding in. I think that 'seeing' is a kind of 'replication and transfer of any moment,' regardless of where it occurs, in which organ, or how it is conveyed. As long as I feel that I am receiving a strong signal at that moment, I store them and, at the appropriate time, stack them into a state, re-presenting them in a non-realistic manner.
It's an experience akin to trading life for life. When I draw in this way, I feel as if all things related to my existence and vitality are poured into the picture, while the rest of me is left desolate.