High Fiber: Women to Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Each elements of the installation is made from a thin strip of silk organza, which is cut slowly from a piece of silk fabric using a burning incense. The strips are carefully rolled in to cone shaped elements of various length. Installed perpendicularly from the wall, the thin silk cones twist and toil, as if growing out of the wall surface.

“Liu’s meticulous handwork transfers energy to each element, resulting in an array of animated forms sprouting from the gallery wall surface. The tension embodied in these delicate but peculiar forms mirrors the unease Liu sometimes perceives between her Eastern origins and Western influences.”

- Kathryn A. Wat, Chief Curator of the National Museum of Women in the Arts