Too Bright To Be Painful
2022-
2022-
Performance art, Photographs, and videos
In Brooklyn, New York
<Too Bright To Be Painful> started with a question: Could the body sensibility be represented on a bright and smooth screen? To explore the question, the artist chose twelve overly bright colors, which could only exist on digital monitors, and displayed them on an IPad. She then explored the parks in New York City with the IPad. According to the hex color code, the difference in numerical value between each color was equal. But due to the characteristic of light, the color sequence created a unique rhythm in the visual. The colors on the screen were flickering, and it implied the heartbeat rate of different animals.
LIU maintained stable gestures in <Too Bright To Be Painful>, which looked relaxing and comfortable, but it took a lot of effort to keep still. The process became a question to viewers: Can you feel a photo or video even when lying on a sofa? How painless can it be to consume information from the Internet and your mobile phones? In this work, the natural scenes were not a background, yet the artist empowered the neglected environments and invisible creatures. They were quiet and small as the body feelings we lost after browsing through bulk information, and the artist hoped to bring them back to the horizon.
Performance art, Photographs, and videos
In Brooklyn, New York
<Too Bright To Be Painful> started with a question: Could the body sensibility be represented on a bright and smooth screen? To explore the question, the artist chose twelve overly bright colors, which could only exist on digital monitors, and displayed them on an IPad. She then explored the parks in New York City with the IPad. According to the hex color code, the difference in numerical value between each color was equal. But due to the characteristic of light, the color sequence created a unique rhythm in the visual. The colors on the screen were flickering, and it implied the heartbeat rate of different animals.
LIU maintained stable gestures in <Too Bright To Be Painful>, which looked relaxing and comfortable, but it took a lot of effort to keep still. The process became a question to viewers: Can you feel a photo or video even when lying on a sofa? How painless can it be to consume information from the Internet and your mobile phones? In this work, the natural scenes were not a background, yet the artist empowered the neglected environments and invisible creatures. They were quiet and small as the body feelings we lost after browsing through bulk information, and the artist hoped to bring them back to the horizon.
