We are so thrilled to participate in the Frieze Seoul 2025
@friezeofficial in Focus sector, with the solo presentation of 𝗙𝗨 𝗟𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴! Come to meet 𝗟𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴 in our 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝟳！✨💫
FU Liang
A Quiet Collapse, 2025
Oil and mineral pigment on canvas
200 × 230 cm
Drawing from Fu Liang's subaquatic experiences during his Mallorca residency, A Quiet Collapse presents a disorienting ascent from the sea viewed from a vertiginous aerial perspective looking down upon the ocean's surface. Only this vast expanse is rendered not just as water but as a boundless, star-flecked cosmos, evoking the artist’s alchemical fascination with the universe. Merging aquatic currents and celestial nebulae using a dark, shimmering palette and swirling brushstrokes, the canvas appears as a boundary that feels like a thin, vibrating membrane between two worlds of mystery.
Breaking this astral sea is an elusive face in the precise moment of eruption, mouth agape in a silent, desperate gasp for air. The image captures a primal fear of drowning, yet reframes it as a vital, almost violent, act of life—a rebirth into the atmosphere. It is a single gesture loaded with immense psychic weight, a site where the physical need converges with a metaphysical cry into the void, challenging the line between a bodily reflex and a spiritual utterance toward the vast, unfathomable space. In this piece, the star-filled sea suggests not just a struggle against water, but a confrontation with the very fabric of a sentient, alien universe, only to be met with a reflection of our own deepest, constantly surging feelings of existence and fragility.
𝗙𝗨 𝗟𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴: 𝘼𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨🪐
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘇𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 | 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝟳
September 3 - 6, 2025
COEX Convention and Exhibition Center
513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea
Photo credit: Holly Fogg
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