Departing from the conventional gaze of daily observation, Sijia Liu rebuild the new orders. Among plants and water, we sense a force expanding outward, hinting at the possibility of breaking away from linear storytelling — the spaces between objects harbour numerous hidden clues that gesture toward the unknown events before and after the depicted moment.

These fluid elements interact with the magnified hardness of constructed objects, evoking a subtle tension between resistance and equilibrium. This tension offers a means of opening these “boxes” of reality — prompting the mind to a point of reconfiguring material orders and forging new contexts. Here, pigments, fabrics, frames, objects, and space intertwine to create a richly textured and layered response to the latent potential for expansion within the visible world around us.