Liu Chuang, born in 1978 in Hubei, is a theoretically-progressive social interventionist whose practice seeks to destabilize the comforts of daily life through the aesthetic disruption and detournment of social rules. Engaging with the economics of the everyday, Liu is a highly political artist who works alongside the tradition of institutional critique to advance his own brand of sensibility.

The artist’s task is to reveal the hidden structures of the prosaic rules that lie behind the comfortable truce negotiated by global capitalism, often bringing his creations to bear upon the body of the observer or otherwise inserting his self-consciously ‘artistic’ production into the realm of the real. The trace of the personal is everywhere in his works, which systematically absorb the labor of the body into their anti-didactic attacks on complacency.

Having moved to Beijing after making a name for himself in the boomtown of Shenzhen, Liu Chuang is currently in the process of adapting his critical artistic practice to the layered urbanity of the capital. His process-based conceptual work takes as its starting point the failures of relational aesthetics, pushing the morphing art world into new territories.