Wen Liu, a Shanghai-born artist based in Brooklyn, explores the intersection of healing and communication through her sculptural works that utilize dried herbs suspended in resin. Inspired by her father's death, she combines traditional Chinese medicine's need for dialogue about pain with artistic expression, creating pieces that evoke both sacred stained-glass and the fragility of the human body. Liu's work explores emotions like grief and healing through light and form, ultimately highlighting the challenges language presents in refining lived experiences. Her exhibit, Antidote, is currently running at Gaa Gallery in New York.
In traditional Chinese medicine, treatments are prescribed through dialogue-how well one can communicate internal pain becomes a condition for healing.
This refracted illumination offers a sensory language beyond speech, mirroring the project’s exploration of emotions like grief, the processes of healing, and the inadequacy of language in capturing lived experience.
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