LIAO Wen



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*Almost Collapsing Balance
(2020 - ongoing)
         Wanderer
         Trust Fall
Headwind
Stare
Resist
Hesitation
Almost Hysterical
Don’t Leave


*Rites of Seasons
(
2021- )
         Tears of Succubus 
         Down the Eye of Polyphemos

Wind Passing through Our Bodies
The Garden of Adonis
Uprise
Blind Hunter







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Almost Collapsing Balance
(2020 - Ongoing)



The artist channels her experience of making and performing with marionettes into her sculptures to encompass flexible joints and detachable appendages. Mechanical limits between the joints incarnate a critical state of the mind, granting the sculptures a balanced structure and a static momentum.





︎07 - Trust Fall







Trust Fall, 2023-2025
Limewood, stainless steel, nylon rope 340x450x120 cm







Trust Fall draws its inspiration from the eponymous game: one person falls backward, relying on others to catch them. This game, once in the artist's childhood memory, has now evolved into a team-building activity in today's society, testing the trust between individuals and the collective through the evocation of fear. This work reconstructs the game scene: an inclined human figure, connected to a steel stage only by its feet, is balanced by a rope pulling at its chest, suspended in the moment of falling. The stage allows viewers to climb up or walk underneath, shifing their perspectives and embodying the different roles within the scene.