刘雨桐 Leah Liu Yutong

ACENTRICSPACE第124位驻地艺术家

2024年七月驻地艺术家

刘雨桐

No. 124 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist

July Resident Artist, 2024

Leah Liu Yutong

关于艺术家 About the Artist

（中国 China）

leahliuyutong.com

Instagram: @leahliu1111

在刘雨桐（Leah）的创作中，她将机械元素和动力学与传统雕塑工艺（如铸造和木工）结合起来，以探索时间在空间维度中的节奏。铸造技术使她能够将惯性融入模块化形式中，因为液体材料石化的过程展现了时间的不可逆性，而铰链、螺钉、支架和其他常见的硬件则在一个可以塑造和重新配置的空间内引入了灵活性和短暂性。

在刘雨桐（Leah）的作品中，相互见证将空间激活为一个场所。这个场所承载了材料、记忆和时间性的相互作用，从而影响我们的内在存在。她将自然和工业材料视为其元素根源的纯粹表现，经常发现自己在它们面前徘徊，进入一种遐想状态。随着工作的手穿透材料的情感空间，与水和土的粘性亲密结合，内在被揭示出来。在这种徘徊中，她揭示了材料的经典元素构成及其与永恒宇宙秩序的对齐。这种不同形式的接近之间积累了一种矛盾。在相互影响的折叠中，地球和天空被连接起来，回响着星星的轨道，恢复了我们在加速社会中对时间一致纹理的感知。

最近，刘雨桐（Leah）一直在探索中国城市景观中被忽视的基础设施发展和街道主题如何对物体施加特定的规则和法律，从而支配居民的空间移动。这些结构、图像和物体为掌权者创造了稳定和控制的幻象，进而影响身体的感知和方向感。与这些发现类似，她的作品旨在纪念重力、摩擦和离心力等看不见的力量如何引入模块化重复的偏差。通过这些偏差，她邀请观众揭示每个场所中的复杂性和秩序。

In Leah Liu Yutong’s practice, she/they amalgamate mechanical elements and kinetics with traditional sculptural processes, like casting and woodworking, to explore the rhythm of time within spatial dimensions. Casting techniques allow her/them to imbue inertia into modular forms, as the process of liquid material fossilizing manifests the irreversibility of time, while hinges, screws, brackets, and other common hardware introduce flexibility and fleetingness within a space that can be shaped and reconfigured.

In Leah’s work, mutual witnessing activates space into a site. This site hosts the interplay of materials, memories, and temporalities that inform our internal presence. She/they sees natural and industrial materials as pure manifestations of their elemental roots, often finding her/themself lingering in front of them in a state of reverie. The interior is uncovered as the working hand penetrates the affective space of the material, coalescing intimately with the stickiness of water and earth. In this lingering, she/they uncovers the material’s classic elemental composition and its alignment with the eternal cosmic order. There is an ambivalence amassed between their different forms of proximity. In the fold of mutual affect, the terrestrial and celestial are bridged, echoing the orbit of stars and restoring the perception of the coherent texture of time in an accelerated society.

Recently, Leah has been exploring how overlooked infrastructural developments and street motifs in China’s urban landscape impose specific rules and laws upon objects, thereby governing spatial movements of the inhabitants. These structures, imagery, and objects create an illusion of stability and control for those in power, subsequently affecting bodily perceptions and orientation. Similar to these findings, her/their work aims to monumentalize how unseen forces such as gravity, friction, and centrifugal force introduce deviations from modular repetition. Through these deviations, Leah invites viewers to uncover the intricacies and order within each site.

过往作品 Previous Works

Four-sided Chamber

环氧树脂、玻璃纤维、气相二氧化硅、钢、五金

Epoxy, fiberglass, fumed silica, steel, hardware

53 x 37 x 21 inches (135 x 94 x 53 cm)

2023

Fieldnotes from Preliminary Inspection

钢、木材、石膏、塑料、硅胶、棕色蜡、线、蒸锅架、碗、PVC管、头发、拉链带、磁性球、铁粉、猪油、水、铁丝网

Steel, wood, plaster, plastic, silicon, brown wax, thread, steamer rack, bowl, pvc tube, hair, zip tie, magnetic ball, iron powder, lard, water, wiremesh

24 x 56 x 60 inches ( 60 x 142 x 152 cm)

2023

Enantiomers

钢、木材、镜面丙烯、五金

Steel, wood, mirror acrylic, hardware

28 x 23 x 8’’ (71 x 58 x 20 cm)

2023

A Halt from Falling

枫木、樱桃木、两个铰链

Maple, Cherry, Two Hinges

11.1 x 47 x 3.5 inches (28.2 x 119.4 x 8.9 cm)

2024

Is this another case of brightness? I turned around and walked back to the darkness that concealed us

材质：木材、乳胶、笔记本纸、门链锁、扬声器、现场监视器、LED灯、米、黄油、豆腐、纸胶带、创可贴、手刺针、乐高、橡胶垫、线、头发

wood, latex, notebook papers, door chain lock, speakers, field monitors, LED lamp, rice, butter, tofu, paper tape, band-aids, hand poke needle, lego, rubber mat, thread, hair

48.5 x 24 x 46 inches (123 x 61 x 117 cm)

2023

Grooves(an Aeroplane Chessboard)

材质：环氧树脂、玻璃纤维、气相二氧化硅、钢、五金

Epoxy, fiberglass, fumed silica, steel, hardware

21 x 27 x 3 inches (53 x 69 x 8 cm)

2023

The period T

材质：钢、木材、铝、五金、电机、绳子

Steel, wood, aluminum, hardware, motor, string

46 x 17 x 15 inches (117 x 43 x 38 cm)

2023