The political elements in Liu Xinyi’s artworks primarily come from extracting aesthetic forms out of visual and linguistic representations, by exchanging the contexts of the certain details in popular and media culture Liu creates paradoxical and satirical tension. For the “Excitation Wave” project, Liu Xinyi appropriated the bottled soft drinks found on everyday consumer market and thepropaganda slogan of “Don’t Forget to Vote” – these two symbolisms of real politics and media politics - installed them in the Light Pavilion space in their exaggerated execution. Whether the colorful liquids that we are familiar with and trust, injected into our digestive system, or the accustomed political slogans we hear on the media, Liu Xinyi has assigned the tonality of alienation and differentiation to their physical wavelength.

Liu Xinyi, born in Hangzhou in 1982, graduated from the Sculpture Department of the China Academy of Fine Art in 2007. In 2010, he graduated with a M.F.A from Goldsmith College in London. He is now living and working in Beijing, China.

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