Yue LIANG
The Unseen Awakening
Mixed Media
46x46cm
2024
“Liang Yue: The Unseen Awakening”
In this work, the emergence of life serves as a renewed exploration of the boundary between “reality” and “illusion” within a postmodern context. The face with closed eyes seems to act as a vessel of time, while the flowing light and interwoven textures suggest a multidimensionality that transcends figurative description: is it the primordial form of life, or a projection of the spiritual realm?
The work employs the transparency of epoxy resin, combined with layered painting techniques, to challenge the visual logic of traditional art and blur the linear narrative of time and space. This creative approach responds to the postmodern critique of the “linear progression of history”: history is no longer viewed as a unidirectional outcome of progress but as a pluralistic development of possibilities, akin to the “uncertainty principle” in quantum mechanics, revealing multiple paths. The intersection of the real and the unreal becomes a poetic expression of “uncertainty” within the piece.
Beyond its visual presentation, the work also emphasizes the viewer’s subjectivity. The closed-eyed image is not a representation of reality but a projection of internal perception—the viewer’s gaze becomes a crucial element in generating the work’s meaning. This interactivity echoes the core modern art theory that “the act of viewing completes the artwork,” suggesting that art exists not only in its material form but also within the dynamic relationship between the viewer and the work.
Ultimately, the piece invites each viewer to deconstruct and reconstruct their understanding of “reality” from a personal perspective: is it a moment captured by the flow of time and space, or a philosophical contemplation of infinite possibilities?