Liuyuanyuan’s artistic practice stems from the dual pursuits of cognizing the true self and exploring a free mind, and during this process, she has been building a self-consistent creation system——the “Bottle”, and it contains concepts such as transitional abstraction, deconstruction-construction-reconstruction, geometric structure, and shadow zone. Meaningless is the core concept of the “Bottle”, which means space, interspace, and nothing. At the same time, she created the Bottle Language, which is the imagined community in the sense of the Bottle. She uses the Bottle Language to create works to construct the Bottle World.

“This world is the real abstraction without any meanings,
because the free-land only can be reached without meanings.”

In this exhibition, I get inspiration from classical music, takes rhythm as structure of the subject, and use installation, image, painting and photography to compose “Nature Symphony.” It consists of four movements, each part of which is composed of multiple sequences, and each sequence is filled with individual events. At the same time, I used this creative logic to construct a graphic Bottle Language, each graphic is like a sequence of sounds, so as to achieve the purpose of interpreting complex spiritual feelings with low-limit materials. The exhibition presents the process of perception, organizing the various sensations in the deep Icelandic natural landscape and composing them into visual music. It is about nature’s purposeless, meaningless structure of existence. Perhaps this is a truly free life form, after the mind gets rid of memory, puts aside thoughts, and escapes the constraints of self-consciousness?

【Cosmic Meaninglessness of Human Life】

In the summer of 2019, I came to Iceland and started a three-month residency project. Being in the vast nature for a long time, I truly feel the insignificance of human life. It’s not on the scale, but on the limit. Mountains, rocks, and moss still exist after I died; and I will be erased forever. My existence is just a small fluctuation in the space and time of the universe. What gives life meaning is ourselves, and this meaning is only meaningful from the perspective of the world. From the perspective of the universe, our lives have no meaning.
The pursuit of meaning is the pursuit of transcending the “limits of individual life.”
If we are not finite beings, there will be no pursuit of meaning.

“The paradox of life is that even though you try to ‘be’ something meaningful,
in the end, you just exist.”

In the early morning, the sun pierced through the dark clouds, touched the snow-covered
mountain peaks, strolled the ravines valleys, and finally poured on the earth.
I listened to the symphony played by nature, with light, mountain streams, trees,
wind, and birdsong all in it. My sense of self disappeared, and the spirit entered
the silence that was not existed by memory and thought. This is the interspace between
the two types of memories. When this interspace can be maintained, a new state is created
that is no longer a memory. I am like a rock, just a pure existence in the universe,
this is real freedom.

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