A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion

In A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion, Liu Di envisions future worlds and investigates the potential of digital manipulation, departing from documentary photography without completely breaking into fiction. Incorporating methods from photography, painting, and computer graphics, and references to cinema, architecture, and space exploration, the artist seeks an unfamiliar aesthetic in order to ponder the question: in what time and space are we living?

“I have no position on what a perfect world could be, or judge the worlds I create,” he says. “Whether they are good or bad worlds, whether you want to live in it or not.”