Frieze London features artist and engineer Xin Liu in video featurette
Meet Me in London: Xin Liu | Frieze London 2025
Frieze London sat down with artist and engineer Xin Liu to uncover her creative inspiration and her creative process.
“In London, ‘everyone is a storyteller,’ says artist and engineer Xin Liu. ‘A tiny plant always has a much bigger root beneath the earth.’
The city works in the ‘subconscious’ of Liu’s ‘visual aesthetic’. When Liu moved to London – having grown up in the desert of west China and lived in New York – she found a network of support she likens to a web of woodland roots. With a studio in Somerset House, in central London, Liu is part of a creative community that nurtures ‘experimentation without any limits’.
‘Can we see the small things?’ asks Liu. In response to a culture primed for over-production, Liu has developed an artistic and engineering practice that explores ‘how to live and how to learn from plants’. For her solo show with Public Gallery at Frieze London, Liu is growing duckweed, commonly perceived as an invasive species, which scientists are now turning to as sustenance for astronauts. Liu’s kinetic water tank will be accompanied by her encaustic works that trace the delicate root systems of the remedial plant Wu.”
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