BIOGRAPHY
Enxi Liu, born in 2001, holds a master's degree in MRes from the Royal College of Art in the UK and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Experimental Art Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in China. She often poetically explores the various possibilities of sensory time combined with the body through performance, photography, and video. In her work, the connection of personal bodily experiences and self-reflective practices intertwines with a prolonged sense of time, embedding elements such as identity, memory, perception, and traces into a slow and subtle cycle of existence.
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Enxi’s works stem from the slow experiences of personal life and the enduring essence of time, exploring time through the connection of bodily perception and the flow of consciousness. Engaging in boundless soul wandering within the perception of bodily actions, she shifts from introspection and self-reflection towards sensory and individual memory-based time, as well as time linked to the relationship with nature. The flow within the continuum seems to blur the boundaries between past and future; each successive state permeates one another, with every present moment containing the past and foreshadowing the future.
Through performance, moving image, and photography, Enxi extends the prolonged sensory experiences into a Sisyphean cycle of repetition. Fragmented and winding traces intertwine with continuously repeated memories. After prolonged waiting, she attempts to narrate the story we collectively flow through; in the circular language of reminiscence and shared experiences, time reunites at this moment, merging us once again into a whole. Enxi’s artistic journey is characterized by a deep engagement with the fluidity of time and memory, weaving them into her works to create a resonant narrative that speaks to the collective human experience.
EXHIBITION
2024
"Emotion Vessels - Art Therapy Exhibition" Group Exhibition, Wei Art Museum, Xi'an, China
“Fragments for the Future: Movement” Group Exhibition, Hangar Gallery x RCA, London UK
“Chromatic Visions" Group Exhibition, Luna Gallery, Istanbul Turkey
“The Entranced Essence” Group Exhibition, RuptureXIBIT Gallery, London UK
“Interstitial” Group Exhibition, Safehouse 1 Gallery, London UK
“About Time” Group Exhibition, Swanfall Gallery, London UK
“Art in Mind ‘Existing” Group Exhibition, The Brick Lane Gallery, London UK
“2024 Q3 Life Reimagined” Group Exhibition, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles US
“Sir John Hurt Art Prize”2024 Shortlist Exhibition, The Church Hall, Holt UK
“MRes RCA 2024 Research Journeys” Group Exhibition, Hangar Gallery x RCA, London UK
“AIR OPEN” 2024 Shortlist Exhibition, Rogue Artist Studios CIC, Manchester UK
“Inspiration Beyond Borders” Exhibition, Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris France
“Horizon International Art” Exhibition, Kyoto International Exchange Center, Kyoto Japan
“LAB ROME'24 Art Prize” Exhibition, 28 Piazza di Pietra Fine Art Gallery, Rome Italy
2023
"Here Go Back Here" Group Exhibition, Old Steel Factory Design and Creative Industrial Park, Xi'an, China
"Traces of Time, Boundless West Mei" Group Exhibition, Future Artists Finalists, Old City G Park, Xi'an, China
2021
"Presence in Presence: China Community Aesthetic Education Action Plan Exhibition" Group Exhibition, Huxi Street Cultural Center, Sichuan, China
EDUCATION
2019-2023
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, First Class Scholarship, China
2023-2024
Master of Research, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
AWARD
2019-2024 Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts First-Class Scholarship
Dean’s Nomination Award at the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Undergraduate Graduation Exhibition
2024 AIR OPEN Highly Commended Award
Selected Artist for the Contemporary Art Award Lab ROME'24
Sir John Hurt Art Prize Finalist
Old City G Park Future Artist Finalist
700° Anniversario di Marco Polo Cultural Exchange Award
INCLUSION
2022 Coexistence, Empathy, Symbiosis: Chinese Community Aesthetic Education Action Plan Exhibition
2024 Aesthetics Magazine, Issue No. 120 (August/September 2024)
2024 101 Contemporary Artists and More / Volume 62024 4C Gallery Q3 Magazine: Life Reconstructed
2024 MALAMEGI LAB - ROME'24 Art Prize2024 ART COSMOPOLITE- No 1 Été
2024 - Vie Artistique à Paris2024 Stroll Press- Flâneur 01. Object
[Maybe this is a boundless wandering of the soul
In the thin life, every subtle trace
Flows in the ripples of the air
Becoming hazy, blurred, like bubbles that inflate
Slowly spinning, rolling, swelling, growing
Ring-shaped fragments of language scatter in the void
Every long self-reflection and recall
Bring a flood of memories in the tremor
Reminiscences interweave, cluttered together
Like a fragment machine, or a carousel shadow
Repeating, folding, and reflecting the faces
They overlap each other and flicker and fade away
The long melody washes down and slides away
Time no longer flows linearly forward
Past and present, future and now will meet
We merge into one again]