Liao Wen’s artistic practice focuses primarily on sculpture, video and performance. She draws inspiration from puppetry, anthropology of myths and rituals, medicine, art history, and her own bodily perceptions. Her works often interrogate the social order, technology, and disciplining power projected onto the body while simultaneously imagining the possibilities of the future body.
Her residency in Switzerland will continue her long-term investigation into rituals, myths, and the body. Liao will explore the Swiss festivals from the aspects of material symbolism, bodily projections, taboos and transgression. Through photography, video, sketches and interviews, she will put together a lecture performance and develop renewed readings of the human condition.
