Artist field note

Liu Wei

A city that will not sit still.

Appears inChina

05 / 05

Merely a Mistake II

2009-11

Salvaged doors and timber are stacked into unstable architecture. The city appears as something continuously built, demolished and improvised.

The five in one idea

Liu treats urban China not as a subject to illustrate but as a system of speed, appetite, construction and instability.