Artist Profile: Ruihong Liu
Overview
Ruihong Liu is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly across sculpture, installation, poetry, and photography. Their work probes the liminal spaces between identity, memory, gender, and domesticity—transforming everyday materials into immersive, symbolic environments. Liu often engages with the language of the feminine interior: soft textures, private rituals, and the emotional architecture of home and heritage.
In THE BOUDOIR OF RECOLLECTION, Liu constructs a deeply intimate sculptural installation that functions as both an altar and a reliquary of identity. Composed of pink satin fabric, human hair, rice paper, and a hand-bound book of poetry, the piece resembles a hybrid of vanity stool and sacred object. Atop the silky folds and cascading wig strands lies an open booklet, inviting viewers into a tactile and textual meditation on personal mythology and transformation. The installation speaks to the embodied experience of femininity—constructed, inherited, performed—and the private rituals through which memory is preserved and rewritten.
The use of soft materials contrasts the object’s sculptural weight, underscoring themes of vulnerability and power. Liu’s careful layering of objects, textures, and text invites viewers to engage not only with what is seen, but with what is felt—and remembered.
Featured Artwork
Bushwick Gallery
- Artwork Title: THE BOUDOIR OF RECOLLECTION,
- Year of Creation: 2023
- Medium: Mixed media installation (wood, fabric, wig, shell, poetry, photography, rice paper/hemp cord)
- Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 20 inches