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Artist-Run Space & Residency, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, Since 2017

刘艺繁 Yifan Liu

ACENTRICSPACE第199位驻地艺术家

2026年八月驻地艺术家
刘艺繁

No. 199 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist

2026 August Resident Artist

Yifan Liu

 

 关于艺术家 About the Artist 

（中国 China）

www.yifanliu.work
 
刘艺繁是一位跨媒介艺术家，创作涵盖影像、身体实践、图像与纸张。她的实践关注性别政治、离散经验与信息传播的过程。她尤其感兴趣的是，图像如何在人与故事之间建立情感性且富有诱惑力的关系。
她目前就读于罗德岛设计学院电影／动画／影像与工业设计专业。
Yifan Liu is an artist working across video, movement, image, and paper. Her practice engages with gender politics, diasporic experience, and the mediation of information. She is particularly drawn to the ways images cultivate affective and seductive relationships to stories.
She is currently pursuing a BFA in Film/Animation/Video and Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.
 过往作品  Previous Works 
 
You Are Going to Love Me and Scream
影像，彩色，有声 Video, color, sound
10分43秒 10’43”
2026
You Are Going to Love Me and Scream讲述了一名生活在罗德岛州普罗维登斯的摄影专业学生，仍在试图面对一段结束于两年前的感情。在一次线上心理咨询中接触到“空椅技术”后，主人公穿行于日常生活中弥散的空间：屏幕、商业环境、碎片化的记忆，以及那个试图摆脱的自我。
影片辗转于居住空间、线上心理咨询平台、商场与游戏厅之间，试图描绘出一片由错位感和挥之不去的情绪痕迹所塑造的内在景观。随着主人公在这些现实与虚拟空间中穿行，场所本身也不断被重新构建，显现出其在离散经验中对归属感的追寻。
在主人公尝试直面尚未解决之事的同时，影片也借助屏幕文字探讨语言的错位与多元性，搭建了一种与影像并行的叙事空间。
该片曾于2026年7月在德国法兰克福 Mal Seh’n Kino 举办的 Minor Landscape 放映活动中展映，该活动由 CiLENS × Gassenprojects 策划呈现；同月亦于柏林 Kunstkneipe Schmetterling 放映。
You Are Going to Love Me and Scream follows a photography student living in Providence, Rhode Island, who is still reckoning with a breakup that ended two years earlier. After encountering the “empty chair” exercise during a virtual therapy session, they move through the ambient spaces of everyday life: screens, commercial environments, fragmented memories, and versions of the self they are trying to leave behind.
 
Moving between domestic interiors, an online therapy platform, a mall, and arcades, the film traces an interior landscape shaped by displacement and lingering emotional residue. These physical and virtual settings are continually reframed through the protagonist’s movement across them, revealing a search for belonging within the diasporic experience.
 
As the protagonist attempts to address what remains unresolved, the film also explores linguistic displacement and plurality through on-screen text, which forms a parallel narrative space.
 
The film was screened at Minor Landscape, presented by CiLENS × Gassenprojects at Mal Seh’n Kino in Frankfurt, and at Kunstkneipe Schmetterling in Berlin in July 2026.
 
You See, This Is What Matters
影像，彩色，有声 Video, color, sound
5分38秒 5’38”
2025
 
You See, This Is What Matters是一部实验短片，以一名坐在影院中观看香特尔·阿克曼（Chantal Akerman）的《我你他她》（Je Tu Il Elle）的酷儿观众为中心，并将这一观看行为与原片的片段交叠在一起。
影片通过重复与迭代，不断回到一个时刻：卡车司机骚扰阿克曼饰演的角色，一边引导她的手，一边说道：“你看，这才是重要的。”作品通过对这一动作的抽离与重构，探讨性别化与性层面的权力、亲密关系及观看行为。
该片于2026年5月在纽约 Emily Harvey Foundation 放映，由 Umarell 策划呈现。
You See, This Is What Matters is an experimental film that centers on a queer spectator seated in a theater, watching Chantal Akerman’s Je Tu Il Elle. The work overlays this act of viewing with fragments from the original film.
 
Through repetition and iteration, the film returns to a pivotal moment: the truck driver’s harassment of Akerman’s character, guiding her hand while stating, “you see, this is what matters.” By isolating and reworking this gesture, the piece interrogates gendered and sexual power, intimacy, and spectatorship.
 
The film was screened at the Emily Harvey Foundation, presented by Umarell in New York in May 2026. 
 
Mr. Everything Bagel and Ms. Strawberry Frosted Donut’s Best Day of Their Life
行为表演 Performance
 21分钟 21 minutes
2025
 
Mr. Everything Bagel and Ms. Strawberry Frosted Donut’s Best Day of Their Life搭建了一场浓缩的婚礼仪式，以审视异性恋规范下的性别与婚姻观念。
 
Mr. Everything Bagel and Ms. Strawberry Frosted Donut’s Best Day of Their Life stages a condensed wedding ceremony to examine how heteronormative ideas of gender and marriage are performed through ritual and theatrical spectacle.
 
143-Page Study of the Alphabet
影像 Video
29秒 29 seconds 
2023
 

艺术家在143页纸上反复描摹自己手写的英文字母表。

 

Across 143 pages, the artist traces her handwriting of the alphabet.