Brooklyn-based, Shanghai-born photographer and multi-media artist Pixy Liao’s Experimental Relationship Vol. 1.1 project is less document and more exploration of the shifting concepts of relationships, power balances and roles within couples, normative interactions, and the “alternative possibilities of heterosexual relationships.” Her photographs stage situations and poses that Liao and her boyfriend perform, resulting in images that are brash, provocative, funny, poignant, pensive, and visually lush.
Recognized as one of the most interesting young multimedia artists and photographers of her generation, Liao has exhibited internationally and held several prestigious artist’s residencies, most recently holding a solo exhibition at Fotografiska in New York.
Relationships work best when each partner knows their place
Find Marquand Library’s copy of Experimental Relationship, Vol. 1, 2007-2017 in our online catalog.
