"History is not a static image of a frozen story. It is not a noun. Even if its images and stories are very old, it is alway flowing forward. History is a verb. The new paint- ings are my way of painting life back into my memories of a propaganda film that, over time, has become a document of the revolutionary sincerity that permeated my childhood. Even the actors in the film believed in their roles. When they walked into the river, carrying their dead and wounded, they were going home."
- Hung Liu

"An artist of Hung Liu's talent is rare, both in technique and in subject matter. She is among the great artists of our era. It is with immense pleasure and great honour that I present "Concession", a collection of pieces that Hung Liu and I have chosen together. The pieces best represent some of Hung Liu's more poetic and sentimental works, a collection of which is appropriately exhibited at the Fuxing Xi Lu Art Center, a historic 1930's townhouse of Shanghai's original French Concession."
- Elisabeth de Brabant