Since 2008, Liu Ren has begun to explore eggshells, English words and toilet paper as the entry point to his art creation, trying to construct his own expressional world by the nearly mechanized extreme "handwork" way. Undoubtedly, sketching an eggshell with pencil or transcribing some English words every day is closely related to the artist's life experience and personality. Just as the artist himself said, "I wish I could bond my life and my art creation completely in expression. On one hand, I am experiencing my life, and on the other, I am narrating my life. The way art helps me is in that I can, in the name of art, encounter other people's experience by chance in my personal expression. It makes me feel like an onlooker at a game, but at the meanwhile, I am in the game."

Obviously, Liu Ren experienced a dimension of time in his own repeated study and life.  Compared with transcribing English words, sketching eggshells refers to the dimension of life more clearly. To the individual life, repeating is another normal state of human life. Therefore, Liu Ren continually and repeatedly sketches the half eggshell in an extremely cool way. Compared with a whole egg that symbolizes some life creature, the hollow inside and irregular zigzag edges are more fragile. It is a memorial and recollecting course of life traces, and also the thought on our state of being.

Liu Ren was born in Shanghai in 1983, and graduated from Printmaking Department of Fine Arts College, Shanghai University in 2007.  His recent exhibitions include +Follow in Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai.