Liang Fu

Liang Fu’s practice is shaped by water. As a painter, using watercolour gives him freedom and fluidity. It allows him to play with colour, light and figuration, before finishing the details in oil paint. His deep blues and rippling brush strokes are a reflection of his liquid muse. As a sculptor, he is fascinated by stalactites – mineral formations shaped by thousands of water droplets over time. His geological sculptures rendered in black crystal call out from prehistoric times. In both mediums, Fu relishes the literal and symbolic power of water.

In his paintings, Fu searches for the elusive middle ground between polar opposites. In Anonym (2021), he captures the transition between absence and presence. A blue-black figure appears and vanishes against a blue-black background. The ghostly apparition has no face and no history that can be seen in the painting. In multiple works titled Boundary, it’s impossible to tell whether the figure is a solid wall or a trick of light. In Fu’s art the only constant is flux – objects cycle between being and non-being.