LIAO Wen



Selected Works


*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.





︎08 - Wanderer







Wanderer, 2024-2025
Limewood, stainless steel, polyurethane foam, sponge, wool blanket, elastic, spring, stanchion
95x167x92 cm; dimensions variable
Supported by MACA Art Center








Wanderer is inspired by the lightweight, body-molded wooden splints designed by American designers Charles Eames and Ray Eames for injured soldiers during World War II. The sculpture features a human figure lying on a wheelbarrow, with its legs springing back upon external impact—mirroring the instinctive reaction of bending one's knees toward the torso when falling backward. The artist reflects on the interaction and negotiation between the human body and its surrounding facilities, particularly the marginalized visibility of individuals with limited mobility in public spaces, while also contemplating the sense of displacement associated with shifting identities. Visitors are invited to push Wanderer to proceed on their way; and it is precisely this interaction that transforms the work into an entity capable of freely traversing the space, wandering beyond the confines of systemic rules.