Pixy Liao: Comfort Zone

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Pixy Liao’s first solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery, marking her debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The exhibition titled “Comfort Zone” features selected works recently created by Liao, encompassing photography, video, and ready-made sculpture. (23 January – 9 March 2024).

Liao is known for her staged photographs of her and partner-collaborator Moro. Her works upend traditional representations of heterosexual relationships by inverting gender roles, often placing Moro as the subservient male muse and herself as the domineering artist-orchestrator. Tongue-in-cheek and imbued with a sense of humor, Liao’s work straddles between the performative and the autobiographical, unfurling her and Moro’s growing relationship.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Pixy Liao (b. 1979, Shanghai, China) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, installation, video, and performance to create works that undermine patriarchal stereotypes in a heterosexual relationship, humorously revealing the multitude of ways to be together. Liao is known for her staged photography where she poses with her partner and collaborator, Moro.

Her carefully constructed tableaus culminate into her long-term and on-going photographic project, Experimental Relationship (2007-present). These self-portraits wherein Liao intentionally subverts traditional hierarchies in gender relations, are performative and occasionally bawdy.

Liao’s recent solo exhibitions were held at Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne, 2023), Lightwork (New York, 2022), Fotografiska (Tallinn, 2022; Stockholm, 2021; New York, 2021), and The Rencontres d’Arles (Arles, 2019). Liao took part in group exhibitions at Johnson Museum of Art (New York, 2023), X Museum (Beijing, 2023), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, 2022), Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Michigan, 2022), Fotomuseum (Winterthur, Switzerland, 2022), National Gallery of Australia (Sydney, 2020), and HOW Museum (Shanghai, 2020). Her work is collected by Alexander Tutsek – Stiftung (Germany), Fort Wayne Museum of Arts (USA), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), M+ (Hong Kong), Museum of Fine Arts (USA), The Center for Fine Art Photography (USA), and White Rabbit Collection (Australia), among others.