55’s aims are to promote critical and engaging contemporary art practices and ideas through exhibitions & curitorial projects. “FRONT.ROOM.LOOP” is an independent project launched March 2013. It is dedicated to showing video works by emerging artists.

For its second project show, Li Liao, a nomadic artist, will present his performance on video entitled “A Slap (wuhan)”. On 8 January 2011, Li Liao stood with eyes closed at the entrance of Optical Valley walking street in Wuhan, waiting for an unknown executant sought online to give him a slap on the face and then leave.

Li Liao was born in China in 1982. He graduated with a B.A. from Wuhan Academy of Art in 2005. His recent exhibitions include: “ON ￨OFF” (Beijing UCCA, 2013); “Scorpio Mark” (solo show, Yangzi River Forum, 2012); “That Girl” (Xi Wang Art Museum, 2012); “Donghu Sweat” (Donghu Art Project, 2010).