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SEEFOOD ROOM proudly presents esteemed artist Liane Chu’s COSMIC NOMAD solo exhibition at Art Central 2024. Chu’s series offers an evocative space for discourse and rumination. Her virtuosity is epitomised by her meticulous use of colours and textures as she enlivens the silent giants in her multidimensional compositions.
Chu calls our attention to the omnipresence of media in the twenty-first century - the technicoloured pixels flooded into our lives when the world became accessible from a rectangle piece of liquid-crystal display. As digital nomads, we wander and feed on the amalgamation of hues, letters and vibrations that inadvertently alter our chemistry.
To Chu, humans are akin to trees. We become what we consume - with nutrients, we flourish and blossom; With poison, we wilt and rot. In this series, the soil in which the perennial subjects feed on entwines them with tints of obscure colours. Chu paints eccentric portraits for our metaphorical counterparts in ethereal backdrops for the audience to embrace a moment of cosmic stillness amidst the dynamic metropolis. We are reminded that we are a vibrant palimpsest of our empirical contiguity, in which individuality is manifested and celebrated.
The surrealist landscapes created by Chu doubled as her biopic of her personal experience with Tourette’s syndrome. Her artworks are a means of cathartic release as each twitching stroke confronts the societal demarcation surrounding normality. With each roaring slash lacerating the horizon, Chu depicts her struggles and desire to navigate the absurd universe whilst she cultivates a sense of hope as a cosmic nomad.
