LIANG WEI

——Wang Minan

In a hyper-individualist society moulded by off-line and online realities, no one perspective holds sway. Instead, infinite takes on reality exist simultaneously, each one ready to change in an instant. Liang Wei’s work excavates this sense of dislocation, creating worlds grown from this schizophrenic societal condition.

In Liang Wei’s work, each painting creates its own macrocosm. Within each composition, images grow and mutate, form agglomerations and accumulations and evolve with an untethered life force. However, Liang’s paintings are not comprised of images. Whatever images were fed into her work have been utterly digested and assimilated by an inner process. What comes out of that process can be understood as psychological maps of reality. They are adaptations of mass images, mass data, like the world’s DNA unspooled.

Accompanying Liang’s large canvases are a series of small works on paper. Rather than forming complex worlds, they appear to be alternative lifeforms finding existence, and testing their place within it.