Film & Video Artist, Contemporary Artist
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Liu Yefu focuses on film, sound, drawing and mixed media. Influenced by Asian folk culture, Liu is interested in the expression of black humor with a stream of consciousness style, playfully comments on the chaos and restlessness of social realities. By shooting daily life scenes, combined with carefully selected ready-made products in line with his fictional plot, Liu mapping the ideology and stereotypes brought by history, nationality, and memory.
Liu’s solo exhibitions including: Fool’s Paradise (Magician Space, 2022), Hehemeimei, (Art Basel Statements Sector, Basel, 2021), No Easy Symbolism (Magician Space, Beijing, 2018), The First Episode (Magician Space, Beijing, 2016). His recent works have been exhibited at 25th Gabrovo Biennial for Humor & Satire in Art (Gabrovo, 2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2019), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, 2019), OCAT Museum, (Beijing, 2018), He Xiangning Museum (Shenzhen, 2017), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, 2017), Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017), YUZ Museum (Shanghai, 2016), Kimberly-Klark Gallery, (New York, 2015) among others. Liu is the nomination of Balois Art Prize (Basel, 2021), Huayu Youth Award (Sanya, 2016) and he is the finalist of Toby Devan Lewis MFA Fellowship (Baltimore, 2014).
Liu Yefu and the Art of Cultural Assimilation at Magician Space, The Beijinger Magazine
Performing Society: The Violence of Gender, Art Forum China
Performing Society: The Violence of Gender, Post-ism
Gallery Weekend Beijing 2019 Review by Alice Bucknell
Shanghai Synergy by Richard Vine
Episode 1, Magician-Space, Beijing, Art Forum China
