04 / QIMING LIU
News & Press
Critical writing, interviews and conversations.
From Social Reciprocity to Play: A Sociological Reading of Qiming Liu’s Red Envelope
Liao Liao reads the one-fen electronic red envelope through the changing relationships between social reciprocity, exchange, equality, and play.
The Meaning of Images in Qiming Liu’s Social Media Circle
Liao Liao examines fragmentation, shared identities, visual consumption, and the distance between an image and the event it represents.
Qiming Liu in Conversation with Art Data Network
A conversation at Caoba Commune on the artist’s move across media, the body and its location, and the choices and traces produced by online platforms and smart devices.
Interview with Qiming Liu
Liu speaks with 99 Art about leaving teaching for independent practice, moving between Beijing studios, and developing performance and video during the financial crisis.
Preserving Personal Historical Memory — On Qiming Liu’s Oil Paintings
Wang Lin considers Liu’s painting as a personal, poetic response to historical forgetting, and a challenge to collective discourse.
Life Hanging by a Thread — Qiming Liu and His Paintings
Gao Ling follows the thread connecting Liu’s personal experience, symbolic political landscapes, and the precarious figures suspended within them.
Between Passion and Reflection — On Qiming Liu’s Oil Paintings
Wu Yongqiang reads Liu’s changing visual languages as a continuous inquiry into dignity, memory, passion, and the individual’s historical condition.
Blood-Red Temptation — An Interview with Qiming Liu
In this World Art interview, Liu discusses historical symbols, social responsibility, personal experience, and the relationship between life and artistic expression.
Conversation with Lin Zi
A bilingual conversation on artistic independence, historical memory, changing forms of expression, and the relationship between personal life and social criticism.