Curator: Huang Liaoyuan

Reception: Saturday, 18th June 2011, 3pm—6pm (Second Hand Rose Band will perform at 5pm)

Duration: 12th June—31st July 2011

Venue: Beijing Art Now Gallery. Building E, Red Yard No.1, Cao Chang Di, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang Dist, Beijing

Tel: 010-51273292

Liang sees his work in philosophical and digital analogies wherein he comments on time, memory and the mysteries of life in general. In Emergency Exit; Red, Yellow, Blue, Green four separate artworks, Liang depicts his feelings about the Matrix, a memory from his school days.

Matrices in general are like motherboards, whose formulae one can apply in physics, quantum theories and computer graphics. In the latter, matrices are used to project a three dimensional image on a flat surface to produce depth and realism. Jigsaw’s pieces appear like a puzzle whose pieces can be mixed, pieced and re-arranged to create anyone’s subjective reality. Thus, in this sense it can be considered an interactive installation in which pieces out of Liang’s life can be interchanged with someone else’s or someone else can play God and re-arrange them into whatever time line they see fit.

Liang uses the word deletion in the title as a way of expressing the aspect of our life that is unattainable, unreachable and beyond our abilities to find. Like Plato’s analogy of the cave the reality revealed by our senses is only but an illusion, while the truth can only be found intellectually.