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刘窗 Chuang LIU

刘窗 chuang LIU

is an artist based in Shanghai. His work explores the social, cultural, and ecological transformations of contemporary China through layered narratives that connect history, technology, and speculative imagination. He has exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Power Station of Art, Astrup Fearnley Museet, and in biennials including Gwangju, Taipei, Seoul Mediacity, and Ural.

lithium lake and island of polyphony ii (2023)

In Lithium Lake and Island of Polyphony II, Liu Chuang borrows the figure of Sophon from Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem to envision an alien anthropologist’s journey to Earth. The film connects the Uyuni Salt Flats (the world’s largest lithium lake) to the Potosí silver mines, tracing two great intercontinental transfers of metal: silver in the colonial era and lithium in the present. Both follow the same route, from the Andes to East Asia, across five centuries. Through speculative narration and archival imagery, the work links resource extraction to planetary history, highlighting the continuities of exploitation and the entanglements of geology, technology, and empire.

Lithium Lake and Island of Polyphony Ⅱ, 2023, 6k(5760x1080), color, 5.1 58min, Courtesy of the artist and Antenna Space.

LOCATION: Bivša trikotaža Arena (former Arena textile factory)

김아영 Ayoung KIM,

Alice Bucknell ,

Živa Božičnik Rebec,

Gerard Ortín Castellví,

Maks Bricelj and Ema Maznik Antić,

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler,

Lawrence Lek,

Nestor Siré,

Suzanne Treister,

Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich,

Marina Xenofontos,

Laibach Kunst,

Dragan Živadinov and Dunja Zupančič,

Tanit Plana,

Heba Y. Amin,

업체 eobchae,

Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko,

Aleksandra Domanović,

Abu Bakarr Mansaray,

Selena Savić and Gordan Savičić,

Sandro Ðukić,

!Mediengruppe Bitnik,

Sophie Cundale,