Simon Liu, Projection
Simon Liu is an artist filmmaker whose practice centers on the rapidly evolving psychological and sociopolitical landscapes of his homeland of Hong Kong, through material abstraction, speculative history, and subversion of documentary cinema practices via short films, multi-channel video installations, mixed media prints, and 16mm projection performances. . Presenting projected work, Liu’s contributions offer a rhyming symmetry between the complexities of a Hong Kong oftentimes unseen – its shadow self – presented within the context of a Chinatown originally sculpted in its image. Sited in this way, Liu’s work doubles, mirrors, and thrums with both the familiar and the deeply alien, highlighting the “alter ego” of the built environment present in a transpacific rhyme between metropoles.
About Simon Liu
Simon Liu (b. Hong Kong, 1987) is an artist filmmaker. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Biennial 2024, Museum of Modern Art, MOCA Los Angeles, The Shed, PICA, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Museum of the Moving Image, Everson Museum, Moderna Museet, "Dreamlands: Expanded", and the M+ Museum. His films have screened at festivals globally including the Toronto, New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, BFI London, Edinburgh, Jeonju, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals alongside the Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, Cinéma du Réel, Punto de Vista, Viennale, and the Media City Film Festival. The M+ Museum and MoMA recently acquired Liu’s Quadruple 16mm Projection Highview, along with other recent works, for their Permanent Collections. He is currently editing his first feature film, Staffordshire Hoard.
Simon Liu，投影
Simon Liu 是藝術電影製作人，其創作透過抽象化的物質、推想歷史和對紀錄片常規的顛覆，聚焦他的家鄉香港在心理和社會政治環境上的劇變。本投影作品呈現香港常遭忽視的複雜性——它的陰影自我——與以香港為藍本的某座華埠背景下，遙相呼應的一種對稱關係。他的作品複製、對照，並沉吟和應一切熟悉的和深感陌生的，以不同大都會之間跨越空間的共鳴，突顯建築環境的「另一個自我」。
Simon Liu是一個藝術電影製作人，透過用不同材料表達抽象概念、推測歷史、以短片顛覆紀錄片固有模式、多頻道的影片裝置、混合媒體印刷和16mm投射表演，聚焦於他家鄉香港急速演變的心理和社會政治格局。他的作品曾經在不停的機構展出，包括the Whitney Biennial 2024、現代藝術博物館、MOCA洛杉磯、The Shed、PICA、香港大館當代美術館、移動影像藝術館、Everson藝術館、Moderna Museet、"Dreamlands: Expanded"以及M+藝術博物館。他的電影曾在全球多地的電影節放映，包括多倫多、紐約、柏林、鹿特丹、BFI倫敦、愛丁堡、韓國全州和香港國際電影節、Sundance電影節、新導演/新電影、CPH:DOX、Cinéma du Réel、Punto de Vista、維也納電影節、和Media City電影節。香港M+藝術博物館和MoMA近來購入Liu的四聯16mm投射高影、以及其他最近的作品作為永久收藏。他正剪接他的首部劇情片- Staffordshire Hoard。