Zheyi Liu

Dreams become transparent, flowing in them with the sleeper, eyes opened --- dreams continue..

The work is about creating a surreal world. The girl sitting in the middle of the boat holding her knees with her eyes closed, the fish tails flapping and the broken wings flashing with each approach of the spectators, these combined elements are as fragmented, uncanny, and surreal as the things that appear subconsciously in dreams. This work is an expression of our intention to see ourselves and things beyond ourselves without the normal psychology and the educated and standardised ways of thinking, and the intention to break free from the protective sheath of consciousness and concepts that are given to us by the world. To be free from the self-imposed concepts, to try to step out of the fixed framework, to think what I think.

Zheyi Liu was born in Guangdong, China, in 1998. She went to the UK in 2016 and studied at Lincoln College in Fine Art and photography. After Zheyi graduated, She went to the University of Westminster and graduated with a BA degree in Fine Art Mixed Media course. Now, she is doing an MA in Computational Art course at Goldsmiths, University of London. Zheyi has been studying in the field of art overseas in the UK for almost 7 years. She has been involved in many artistic fields and forms, for instance, paintings, installations, sculptures, photography, film, and new media (programming, computing). She travels between China and the UK and has a first-hand understanding of the position or situation of being an Asian in a Western country. Much of her work reflects on self-perception and self-positioning under the influence of Western society and philosophical psychology.