Following her installation for the gallery at Art Central Hong Kong in 2015, Liang Manqi debuted new work at Contemporary by Angela Li’s Hollywood Road home.“Imaginary Practice,” the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, features nine new oil paintings, as well as “Kate’s Space,” a site-specific installation similar to those the artist has undertaken across Asia since she graduated in 2012 from the joint MFA program of Berlin’s University of the Arts and China Academy of Art.Liang’s oil-on-canvas works are made up of geometric abstractions playing with perspective and dimensions, and the installations expand on this idea. Her Art Central space, entitled “Inside | Outside,” for example, was composed of a number of gray trompe l’oeil rods and structures painted onto the walls, with the shifting perspective fragmented further by the works on canvas hung throughout.Although “Kate’s Space” is less reliant on optical illusion than “Inside | Outside,” it still feels like a shifting space, with the walls seeming to recede slightly. The accompanying paintings share this playfulness with dimensions, as well as a pastel color palette that separates them from the primary colors of her last solo show at Seoul’s Arario Gallery. Though largely abstract, the paintings often feature spaces that feel like rooms, which further unites them with her site-specific work, creating a strange world among the gallery’s off-white walls.“Imaginary Practice” runs through May 13 at Contemporary by Angela Li in Hong Kong.
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