Xinghao Liang









































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Xinghao Liang’s practice traverses constructed environments, installation, objects, painting, and performance—or perhaps more accurately, medium itself is not his focus; his projects revolve around specific spaces. He transforms space and negative space into active, vocal realms, establishing a framework for his conceptual research.

Born at the turn of the century, Liang utilizes the friction between intense societal acceleration and the sudden stagnation of the 2020s as his central conceptual engine. His research focuses on disused architectural monuments—once symbols of urban spectacle—and obsolete everyday objects, structures that carry the specters of 'lost futures' as the core of his visual language. Liang regards architecture not merely as inert construction, but as a material envelope that actively conditions, shapes, and constrains human living space. Although human figures are explicitly absent from his environments, the mundane objects and techno-accelerationist remnants saturating these spaces quietly and playfully testify to contemporary alienation and the spectral traces of existence.

Engaging with this compressed existential state, Liang extends his practice into a spatial methodology of structural inversion and contextual displacement. He disrupts normative architectural hierarchies—reconfiguring ceiling lighting grids onto the floor, inverting the spatial dynamic between the eye and the projector, placing missiles inside a modified microwave oven to heat them and  amplify the timer's ding, or encapsulating a gallery staircase to build an inaccessible cinema enclosure where viewers find themselves stranded at the end of a corridor, confronted by crowded theater seats they cannot enter. As physical space is systematically reconfigured, the bodily alienation experienced within these environments gradually gives way to a more complex dialogue: confronting the scars of architectural history, the paradoxes of human progress, and the haunting vacuum left behind when grand fantasies of the future collapse.

Recently, Liang has been developing his practice and research at his studio in Fulham, London.


梁星昊的艺术实践穿梭于构建环境、装置、物件、绘画和表演之间，又或许说，媒介本身并不是他的关注点，他的项目围绕着具体空间。 他将空间与负空间化为主动发声的场域，构筑起属于他的概念研究框架。

出生于世纪交替的历史节点，梁星昊将过去数十年的急促加速与 2020 年代骤然显现的失速停滞，转化为其创作的核心概念引擎。他将研究聚焦于那些曾经象征城市奇观、如今却被废弃的宏伟建筑遗迹以及“落后”的生活用品——这些结构承载着“已然失落的未来”之幽灵，构成了他创作语言的核心形态。梁星昊将建筑视为一种塑造与挤压人类生活的材料外壳。在他构建的场域中，“人”虽然始终不在场，但空间中充斥的日常物件与加速主义残留，默默地、调皮地印证着当代主体的精神异化与存在的幽灵性痕迹。

围绕这种被挤压的生存状态，梁星昊将实践延伸至一套颠倒与重置（Inversion and Displacement）的空间方法论。他反复通过重构日常的建筑秩序——将天花板的照明系统铺设于展览地面，倒置肉眼与投影机的观看关系，把导弹塞进改造过的微波炉中加热并放大计时器的声音，或将美术馆的过渡性楼梯包裹，建造出一个永远无法被进入的影院——观者被卡在走廊的尽头不知所措，却面对着拥挤的电影座椅，难以入座。当物理空间被系统性地重置，观众在场域内经历的身体异化，逐渐导向一场更为复杂且深刻的对话：直面建筑历史的痕迹、进化与扩张中的自我悖论，以及当对未来的宏大幻想破灭后所留下的幻想真空。

近期，梁星昊在伦敦富勒姆的工作室中开展他的实践和研究。




On the practice
'His practice functions as an investigation into the contemporary relationship between self and environment, finding particular resonance in spaces with hauntological or liminal qualities, sometimes actively constructing or generating these spaces, and sometimes working more gesturally in framing them.
The emotional resonance of Liang's work anchors on the volatility at intersection of contemporary speed and stagnation, and the uncertainty of the human's position within it.'

-Cameron Jarvie


Bio

Xinghao Liang (born 1999 in Beihai, China) is an curently living and working in London. He is one of the founders of the experimental art project ‘The Afterpiece’.

梁星昊（出生于1999年，中国北海）现工作生活于伦敦，是实验艺术团体“The Afterpiece”的两个创始人之一。



Education
MA Fine Art
Chelsea College of art, UK
2023-2024

BA Printmaking
China Academy of Art, China
2017-2021 




Duo/Solo Shows
2024 
Duo
Diagonal Resonance
UNIX STUDIO
Chengdu, China


2021
Duo
Stand and Stare
Great Art Space
Shenzhen, China


2020
Solo
Records of contemplation
SEEYOO ART SPACE
Hangzhou, China

Duo
Riddle of Sphinx
SEEYOO ART SPACE
Hangzhou, China





Selected Group Shows
2025
Lingering Presence
Bonian Space
Beijing, China

New Horizons: Emerging Voices in Chinese Art and Sculpture
Asian Society HK
Hong Kong, China

Stage
SET Woolwich
London, UK


2024
Rehearsal: Works by 30 Post-90s Artists
Chun Art Museum
Shanghai, China

A Touch, a Glance
K11 MUSEA × Hexagon Gallery
Hong Kong, China

Southern Monsoon
XLY Museum of Art & Design
Chengdu, China


2023
17th Arte Laguna Prize Final Exhibition
Arsenale Nord
Venice, Italy


2023
AURA
Powerlong Art Center
Hangzhou, China




Selected Press






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