Beili Liu is a contemporary Chinese-American conceptual installation artist who was represented in China for the first time at the Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center. She is an accomplished artist who has seen much recognition in the United States. Art in America Review has commended her works for being “materially simple but metaphorically rich” (Janet Koplos, April 2009).

The artist’s return to China in this solo exhibition marked her homecoming. Her works, which are deeply entrenched in a dialogue between Eastern and Western cultural and moral codes, address her personal journey from China to the United States as a young adult. Having been born in Jilin, China and raised in Shenzhen, Liu’s works often speak to the shift she experienced after moving to the United States, and her efforts to build bridges of communication between the two very distant lands.

Thread, paper, incense, wool, salt, water. These simple materials and compounds are the vehicles by which artist Beili Liu hand crafts microcosms of delicacy and grace. By working on these everyday materials, Liu manipulates their intrinsic and bare qualities to extrapolate much more complex narratives.