INTERVIEW WITH 劉慧中
LIU HUI CHUNG
LIU HUI CHUNG
S&A: Hello Liu Hui Chung, please tell us a little about yourself. How long have you been painting?
LHC: I have been playing with crayons and colored pens since I was three. But I started to learn drawing and watercolor when I was ten years old. So I have been painting for 20 years, I think.
S&A: Many of your paintings depict youthful figures in outdoor settings. What is the relationship between these figures and their environment?
LHC: Those youthful figures in outdoor settings mean “human being" and "an empty thing with a human form".
LHC: I have been playing with crayons and colored pens since I was three. But I started to learn drawing and watercolor when I was ten years old. So I have been painting for 20 years, I think.
S&A: Many of your paintings depict youthful figures in outdoor settings. What is the relationship between these figures and their environment?
LHC: Those youthful figures in outdoor settings mean “human being" and "an empty thing with a human form".
Another World by Liu Hui Chung
S&A: In your bio you describe your work as being "narrative and based on fairy tales that try to convey those things in the world" that seem "beautiful but are defective actually.” There is an impression of sadness in A flower falls and then blooms. But the flower which is blooming presently is not the flower of yesterday. Can you tell us more about this beautiful and mysterious painting? What does the mechanical girl symbolize?
LHC: About this painting, I want to draw something scary and cute at the same time. Since you think it is mysterious, let it remain mysterious.
LHC: About this painting, I want to draw something scary and cute at the same time. Since you think it is mysterious, let it remain mysterious.
A flower falls and then blooms. But the flower which is blooming presently is not the flower of yesterday by Liu Hui Chung.
S&A: Could you tell us about the imagery in Lost Mysterious Land? There are many fascinating features in this painting. In one area of the painting we see a large girl nestled between trees. A few bees buzz around her face but she is not bothered by their curiosity.
LHC: Those bees are notes of song that are blown by shells. That huge girl is listening to the music.
Lost Mysterious Land by Liu Hui Chung
S&A: Sometimes you use multiple canvases to create a large image. Could you tell us more about this process?
LHC: Some of them express the concept of a puzzle; I think the world is made up of many small parts like a puzzle. The canvases of my larger works can be combined in different ways, creating the picture in an unlimited extension or an infinite circulation.
S&A: What do you have planned for the future? Do you have any upcoming exhibitions?
LHC: About the future, I have no definite ideas. If I could, I wish to paint forever. I have an upcoming exhibition in Taipei’s Hotel Art Expo in January 2021.
Please visit Liu Hui Chung's website to see more of her artwork. You can also follow her on Instagram @liuhuichung and Behance.