Siqi Liu

Siqi (b.2001) often explores balance, rules and conflicts between human and identity and memory. She always focuses on and transform materials and media, presenting different textures and states, and then explore forms and materials in combination with the space they are in. At the same time, by changing the state and intrinsic quality of common materials and images, she challenges the conventional logic of everyday things, remodels, combines, and arranges them, and turns the ordinary objects that accompany us in daily life into the focus.

About her work ‘At the Seventh Second’, she explores identity is an option, it should be fluid, not a default setting. However,  what people regard as”self-expression” is gradually turning into “self-restraint”. Humans are losing the perception of identity, which gradually leads to short memories, just like fish with only seven seconds of memory. But for fish, they turn around and are still free after seven seconds, but we still stay.

Bookcases and fish tanks are symbols of history and memory for humans and fish. She hopes that objects can be preserved in this way, like a museum, to resist the transience of memory and the nature of being easily discarded. She used cement to try to simulate the silt and sediment at the bottom of the fish pond. It seems that everything of a living body is buried there, including all emotions, visible and invisible dreams, and memories that travel through time and space…