Vanessa Liu

Vanessa Liu (b.1999) is a visual artist mainly producing paintings, prints and collages.

Vanessa was born in Southern China. Before RCA, she studied illustration at the Rhode Island school of Design.   

In her works, Vanessa explores the idea of personal rebirth, particularly focusing on the implicit communications facilitated in the process. 

I learnt through my experiences to let go: to let go of memories, times, languages, egos, authorities, identities… It is an inevitable process that applies to everyone on different scales of time, but for me it comes in quicker cycles. To me, these are not acts of deliberate escapisms, but inevitable dissolvements.

I keep a record with myself with the purpose of communicating to myself through time, to speak to my future self and to remember who I was.

With my works, I invite audiences to enter these personal archives: to re-interpret meanings, to re-write my stories, or to observe how the cycles unfold.