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Resonance, 2024
by Beili Liu (China)

Silk organza, cyanotype, epoxy resin, hardware
Shisen Hanten Level 34, L34.ART.05

The Artwork アートワーク

Resonance is a site-responsive art installation designed for the iconic main dining hall of Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro.

The artwork reflects and celebrates the excellence of Shisen Hanten’s culinary legacy and its international debut of this best-loved Szechwan restaurant in Japan. Inspired by the beauty and serenity of water, the artwork offers the essence of giving and regeneration that is embodied in the essential function of the restaurant - a convergent space that brings warmth, excitement, and joy to guests near and far. The artwork highlights the essence of this shared experience: connection, love, prosperity, and transformation.

The installation consists of hundreds of organic translucent pebble-like forms in shades of blue and silver, referencing the subtle tones of water. The artwork serves as a visually impactful anchor for the main dining hall.

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Artist's Statement アーティストの声明

"I make environments that resonate with the experience of migration and cultural memory."

"My site-responsive installations and performances are rooted in the essence and history of a place and negotiate personal, cultural, and environmental concerns. I explore resilience, healing, and hope through humble materials and accumulated labour."

The Artist アーティスト

Beili Liu is a visual artist who creates material-and-process-driven, site-responsive installations and performances.

Liu's current research focuses on the complex ecological, political, and environmental concerns facing the Circumpolar North and the urgency of the climate crisis on a planetary scale. Liu states, "I am called to visit the Arctic, a place that embodies the sorrows and hopes of our shared planet." Working with commonplace materials and elements such as thread, needle, scissors, feather, salt, wax, and cement, Liu manipulates their intrinsic qualities to extrapolate complex cultural and environmental narratives. As Kay Whitney wrote about Liu's work in Sculpture Magazine: "Liu's installations leap from obsession and repetition to something profound and expansive, merging the personal with the political. These remarkedly ordinary materials emphasize the disjunctive pairing of subtle beauty and cultural narrative."

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