Mine, Yours, Ours

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Public Gallery
London, UK

September 20 - October 19, 2025

In its entirety, MINE, YOURS, OURS explores spaces of belonging and archives of intimacy. Liu’s genomic project points to the impossibility of fully knowing or authoring the self, even in an age of boundless data. The exhibition considers practices of intimacy and remembrance, asking how the personal and collective overlap in a shared pursuit of self-governance and survival.

Positioned at the frontier of technological and cultural change, Xin Liu’s practice examines the futility of preservation and the exhausts of progress and scientific pursuit, foregrounding the limitations that shape our contemporary condition. Her work reclaims narratives shaped by technological transformations in recent decades, from space exploration and immigration to biotechnology and motherhood. On the basement level, Liu’s mixed media installation Book of Mine (2019) projects the artist’s DNA sequence in base pairs across the back wall. A dot matrix printer produces endless pages of Liu’s genomic code, sampled and sequenced in 2018, on continuous-feed paper, slowly filling the gallery with her personal data over the exhibition’s duration. Yet printing it in its entirety is an impossible task: nearly 900 pages contain only the bases of her X chromosome, demonstrating the very limits of self-authorship and comprehension.