Sensory Spaces | contemporary art from Beijing in Rotterdam

Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Liu Wei was asked to make a site specific installation in the gallery; it deals with China's rapid modernization and urban growth. Exhibition runs till September 28 2014 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen asked Liu Wei (Beijing, 1972) to make a site-specific for the forth edition of Sensory Spaces. Liu Wei’s work deals with China’s rapid modernization and urban growth. Literally using the materials a city is made of, he takes the power structures and dynamism of urban society as his subject. His two- and three-dimensional works consist chiefly of assemblages of materials and objects from everyday reality. He physically deconstructs our reality to expose the underlying urban dynamic.

For the installation in the museum the artist has placed enlarged construction elements, which are both building blocks and sculptures, in the exhibition space. Collectively they form a larger-than-life do-it-yourself kit, like an urban landscape through which visitors can walk. The installation alludes to construction and decay, to possibilities and utopias. For more information download the Liu Wei Sensory Spaces brochure