Cry:O

→Cosmic Metabolism
→Gleaming Bodies | Sapporo International Art Festival 2024

→Seedlings and Offsprings | Pioneer Works 2023

The Receiver, 2023. Photographer: Daniel Greer.

Mixed media
Installation

As a way of examining humanity’s innate desire to sustain and to perpetuate its species, Cry:0 is a series of mixed-media sculptures inspired by biological and medical innovations such as cryonics and egg freezing, each designed to interfere with natural life cycles.

Embedded with a cooling mechanism that causes thin layers of frost to appear on its surface, the works also reference scientists’ research into subglacial lakes in Antarctica and ice-covered oceans deep beneath the surface of moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, where probing devices search for traces of life from ancient and unknown worlds.

Press:
Flaunt Magazine | Xin Liu |‘The Theatre of Metamorphoses’
BOMB | Xin Liu by Danni Shen: Contemplating cryogenics, sci-fi, death, and an aesthetics of failure via technology.
Frieze | Artists Capturing the Pain, Discomfort and ‘Social Unease’ of IVF
CURA | Xin Liu in The Generational Issue 44

The Mothership

2023
Sculpture

51 X 36 X 3 inches
129.5 X91.5 X 7.6 cm

Silicone, Bronze, Aluminum, Customized cooling system

The Cradle

2023
Sculpture

52 X 38.6 X 4.3 inches
133 X 98 X 11 cm

Silicone, Bronze, Aluminum, Customized cooling system

When I Try to Hold You

2023
Sculpture

70 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Bronze, Customized cooling system, Aluminum, Acrylic, Steel.

The body that opens
2023
Sculpture

75 X 21 X 11 inches
190.5 X 53.3 X 27.9cm

Bronze, Glass, Aluminum, Customized Cooling systems

The Receiver
2023
Sculpture

62 X 21 X 11 inches
157.5 X 53.3 X 27.9 cm

Bronze, Glass, Aluminum, Customized Cooling systems

A Gentle Held

2023
Sculpture

72 X 12 X 12inches
182.8 X 30.5 X 30.5cm

Bronze, Aluminum, Bio-leather made from shrimp shells, Customized Cooling System