Liu Shuwei 刘树伟 was born in 1985 Tangshan and currently lives in Shanghai, China. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Guangdong University of Technology in 2009, then he decided to do what he really love such as photography, design and writing. His works has been exhibited internationally, including at Power Station of Art, the State Hermitage Museum, Artefiera Bologna, JIMEI × ARLES Photo Festival, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Vu Photo.
Above is a selection of several series, which he introduces as follows:
“Visible Darkness”
2016, photography and video
A series I started out of my fear of losing sight. I though blue would be the last color I could see, like when Derek Jarman discovered “Blue is darkness made visible.”
“Friendship and the pink triangle”
2017, photography and collages
My fear came true, what the works experienced has became part of itself in 2018.
“The Garden”
2017, photography and collages
It’s about the way we meet, the way we rebel, the way we treat the same and the different.
“Childhood Revisited”
One of the first projects, back in 2012. I guess my works are all about distances from the world. This one is about distance in time.
“Into the Blue”
This is another part of Blue trilogy. As Rebecca Solnit wrote: "Blue is the color of longing for the distance you never arrive in, for the blue world. The blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see from miles, the blue of distance. This light that doesn’t touch us, doesn’t not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost."
