As a visual artist, Liu Gang considers the reality that surrounds him and uses his work to pose questions such that others notice and solve them. As a photographer, he wants to make an objective record of things and events and document people's thoughts.

Recently, Liu has started to focus on his identity, that of a Chinese man born in the 1980s.Ever since he was born, he has been encouraged to strive to be the best. As he received this education, his country entered an unprecedented period of development. China is now the fastest developing country in the world, but culture needs more time to evolve. Because cultural development has not yet caught up with the economic development, a gap emerged between the two. This striving for greatness also brings into question our ability to buy the best culture. We strive to be the best, but the best is not necessarily the most suitable and we do not have the patience to wait for it. This is a serious problem, but with time we will come to realize the foolishness of this thinking. This is not only a process of cultural development, but it is also a part of understanding ourselves.

Liu attempts to use his work to record and preserve the conflict between economics and culture in this period of rapid development. He uses his camera to observe what we are thinking, what we want, what we hope our country will be, the mistakes we make along the way, and how we think about our culture. He tries to trace the reasons for different phenomena, which is the main theme of his work over the last year. During that time, he made the Paper Dreams series by collecting housing advertisements. He then analyzed these advertisements, especially in view of the financial crisis and the Olympic Games, and photographed them. He photographed 700 pictures, choosing 20 images for exhibition.