My work begins with a recurring question: How does something come into presence? This question extends beyond human experience to include animals, plants, ordinary objects, and what appears to be inanimate. Every work begins with an act of attention – an encounter with something that quietly asks to be seen again.
Space is not the subject of my work, but the medium through which I think and work. By placing materials, objects and bodies within a space, I try to create the conditions in which their presence can emerge. A fallen branch, a sheet of paper moved by the wind, or a stage model may become the starting point of a work.
My artistic language was shaped through scenography, where literature, architecture, movement, and material first converged. Today, this way of thinking continues beyond the theatre. Whether working with installations, drawings, moving images, or scenography, I create situations in which meaning emerges slowly through the relationships between people, objects, and the spaces they temporarily inhabit.
Rather than offering fixed interpretations, my works invite moments of attention. They ask viewers not simply to look, but to notice – to discover how ordinary things can quietly take on another presence.
Born in Being, Sisi Liu graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and the École Supérieure D’Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco. After working in set design for theatre and Chinese opera in China, she moved to France, where her practice expanded into installation, drawing, and moving images. She currently lives and works in Paris.