The exhibition unfolds through the narratives of four video works and a collection of images and archival materials. Revolving around Luka's latest series Women's World, which recreates overseas Chinese women's memories in 20th-century Cantonese opera theaters, movie sets, and nightclubs.
Shifting from questioning the nature of "matter" to the dualistic system of human cognition, then to geometric mathematical experiments, Liao Fei’s art practice deduces the existence and operative patterns behind the "material world" of our perception and experience through abstract and sensual art scene expressed in common mathematical and physical logic.
"Payne Zhu | MATCHPOOL" is the term 3 of the C-Space Project at OCAT Shanghai. The exhibition title is both the Chinese young artist's latest work and a brand new clue that encapsulates the many creative scenarios that allow viewers and the creator to revisit since 2015.