25 January artist talk with Jen Liu, Ruoru Mou and curator Christina Li

Please join us on Sunday, January 25 at 12pm for a conversation between Jen Liu and Ruoru Mou, moderated by Christina Li on the topics of gender, labour, Chinese diasporas, and technology - analog as well as digital.

Jen Liu is a New York born and based artist working in video, painting, choreography, and experimental programming and genetic engineering, while looking at histories of labor, diasporic Asian identities, and the ways in which technology features in both. Liu’s current body of work, Future Perfect 888666, is structured on the fluidity of elemental mercury, in which various histories of invisible labor converge – Chinese American sex workers in the 19th century, AI microlaborers, and xenobots. In this project she continues to collage together nonfiction texts to reveal the emotional tolls of labor, as well as to underscore the underlying dreamlike logic of entanglement capitalism. She is a recent recipient of the Creative Capital Grant, LACMA Art + Technology Lab, Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video, Art Award from Cornell Tech, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and Hewlett 50 Arts Commission in Media Performance.

Ruoru Mou (1997, Florence) lives and works between London and Amsterdam. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Mou’s process-led practice reconfigures organic material, industrial forms and by-products alongside cinematic tropes to question how we assign value and navigate excess. Her works often transform over time, reflecting the contingent systems that shape production, circulation, and material politics. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Fortunate at Cell Project Space, London; Life After Life, 15th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas; OFFSPRING De Ateliers, Amsterdam; Big Fortune, Woonhuis De Ateliers, Amsterdam; Ceremonial Weight, April in Paris, Aerdenhout; On Feeling, The Approach, London and Leftover Linings at San Mei Gallery, London.

Christina Li is a Hong Kong-born curator and writer based in Amsterdam, whose artist-driven projects explore the negotiation of diverse identities, perspectives, and experiences across geographies and cultures. She is the Artistic Director of Kim Association, Singapore, and co-curator of Sonsbeek 2026 in Arnhem, Netherlands. She previously directed Spring Workshop, Hong Kong (2013–2017) and has held curatorial positions at Para Site (Hong Kong), SKOR (Amsterdam), and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht). Her curatorial work includes Pilvi Takala's presentation for the Pavilion of Finland at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and Hong Kong's presentation of Shirley Tse's work at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Her projects have been presented at institutions including Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; EMMA, Helsinki; M+, Hong Kong; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; and Z33, Hasselt. She curated the second edition of Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time (2022), a triennial video and performance art series in Bangkok. Li's writings have appeared in exhibition catalogues and publications such as ArtReview Asia, LEAP, Parkett, Spike, and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Art.

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The talk will take place due to Jen Liu's new solo exhibition at the gallery: Glorious Substances, Beautiful Settings. Read more here. 

 

 

Publication date: 21 Jan '26