BOUNDED SPACE is delighted to announce that BOUNDER CELL will present the solo project Spiraling by artist Liu Yang on July 4.
Foreword
Break everyday life, then reconstruct it through one’s own will.
The mundane world is saturated with solidification and standardization, smooth and secure as an assembly line. Yet it loses its authenticity. Against that, artist Liu Yang chooses a more arduous and slower handmade path: using individually fired porcelain shards: thin, fragmented, and independent to accumulate piece together, and reassemble into entirely new forms. Each piece bears the trace of a hand grappling with the limits of its material. This exhibition unfolds across two spiritual dimensions: the White Pagoda that stands upon the earth, and the circular realm suspended in void. Vertical and horizontal, standing and hanging, opening and closing, together they enact a quiet translation of Eastern philosophy within the context of contemporary art.
The White Pagoda series (also titled “White and Empty”) employs the technique of extreme thin-body porcelain, its walls diaphanous, nearly translucent, pushing ceramic fragility to both visual and physical extremes. In conventional understanding, “thin” implies instability and vulnerability; yet within the creative system of the White Pagoda, fragility is a deliberately chosen language. The ultra-thin shards are layered and joined one upon another, their seams clear and unashamed, never concealed. They stand upright, forming a highly tensile “fragile verticality”—appearing as if they might topple at any moment, yet remaining ever silently erect.
If the White Pagoda is a vertical cultivation rooted in the earth, then the suspended circular installation Folded Universe is at once an inward healing and an outward escape, a cosmic vision. The work takes sharply angled triangular slivers as its basic units, arranged in repetitive, orderly concentric rings that ultimately enclose a perfect circle. Here, the sharpness of the triangle and the cyclic embrace of the circle coexist in opposition—a broken wholeness that, despite its fractures, still closes the ring; despite its cracks, still attains the realm of completeness.
“Each shard points to a lived reality.” From the serene self-sufficiency of the White Pagoda to the fractured completeness of the Folded Universe, in an age that worships flawless wholes and efficient closure, these works deliberately retain traces of rupture and the process of construction. Artist Liu Yang acknowledges life’s innate brokenness, then gently sutures it with a subjective order.
By Sun Evelyn
Born in Beijing, China in 1985. She received her bachelor's degree from Communication University of China. She studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts London. She is a graduate student at the School of Experimental Art and Science and Technology, Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is the director of Houxi Life Art Studio.
Her works have been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles in the United States, at the OLBricht Art Museum in Berlin, Germany, at the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, at Beijing 798 Meishang Gallery and 798 Zero Space, at the Shanghai Cooper Gallery, at Suzhou Jinguli Art Center, and at Xi'an Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum. She regularly participates in domestic art fairs, including Art Beijing and the Guangzhou Art Fair.
Major Solo Exhibitions
"Healing, and Being Healed" – Beijing Heiqiao MStudio (2020)
"Symbiosis of Freedom" – Nanxi & Zhang Yang Double Solo Exhibition – Beijing 1897 Science and Technology City N18-5 (2020)
"Looking Out" – Nanxi Solo Exhibition – Beijing Baoguosi Temple (2021)
"Blooming Season" – Chen Yan & Nanxi Double Solo Exhibition – Xi'an Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum, Hall 9 (2022)
"Harmony" – Beijing Youth Culture Community Hall (2024)
Major Group Exhibitions
Los Angeles Night of Chinese Culture – Los Angeles, USA (2014)
Differences in Integration – OLBricht Art Museum – Berlin, Germany (2019)
New York Abstract Art Exhibition – New York, USA (2019)
Forms of Abstract Emotion – Beijing, Songzhuang (2019)
Zero Space Expression Invitational Exhibition – Beijing 798 (2019)
Animal Theme Contemporary Art Exhibition – Nanjing Yi Art Space, China (2019)
Contemporary Drawing Art Exhibition – Liuzhou, China (2019)
International Women Artists Exhibition – Beijing, Songzhuang (2020)
The 3rd Circular Art Spring Exhibition – Suzhou Jinguli Art Center (2020)
"Rediscovering Power" Contemporary Art Exhibition – Beijing 19897 Science and Technology City N16 (2020)
"Fantasy Kingdom" Emerging Artists Nomination Exhibition – Beijing 798 Meishang Gallery (2020)
"Everything is Possible" – The 4th Circular Art Spring Exhibition – Suzhou Jinguli Art Center (2021)
2021 Restart – Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition – Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art (2021)
Contemporary Young Artists Invitational Exhibition – Yinchuan Young Gallery (2024)
The Garden After the Filter Disappears – Beijing Songzhuang M Gallery (2024)
Sun Dial and Moon Dial – Beijing Space-Time Art Museum (2025)
Huan Xiang: The 9th CAFA Graduate Student Works Exhibition – Beijing Wangjing NEEDART Art Space (2025)
Huan · Xiang – CAFA Young Artist Support Program Invitational Exhibition – Beijing Xiangwai Space (2025)
Post-Organ – Beijing Songzhuang Xinghe Art Museum (2025)
Different Sources, Same Echoes – Chinese and International Artists Invitational Exhibition – Beijing Dagao Art Museum (2025)
Mountains of Words, Seas of Characters – Beijing 798 Value Space (2026)
Future Women – Chinese Women's Art Exhibition – Beijing Xinghe Art Museum (2026)
Fusion Songzhuang – Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Power – Beijing Xinghe Art Museum (2026)
Art Fairs
Art Beijing Art Fair – Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Hall (2021)
The 27th Guangzhou International Art Fair – Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center (2023)
The 23rd Beijing Art Fair – Beijing Exhibition Center (2023)
The 24th Beijing Art Fair – Beijing Exhibition Center (2024)
Guangzhou Urban Art Season – Guangzhou International Public Art Fair (2024)
