Echo Liu (b. 1996) is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Through photography, multimedia art, and video, their work explores the intricacies and interplay of sex, identity, and perception, drawing from their personal experiences and background. Through exploring how identity is performed, constructed, and perceived through the lens–both literally and metaphorically–they examine how representation and visibility shape selfhood and desire. In their work, they position the body as both subject and material, using image-based storytelling to examine how perception mediates identity and embodiment, particularly within queer and racialized contexts. Grounded in lived experience, their work navigates questions of intimacy, visibility, and the politics of looking, exploring the tension between being seen and being understood, and questioning what is gained, lost, or obscured when the self is rendered into an image. Liu's work has been featured by Refinery29, Polyester Zine, Aether Magazine, Girlgaze, Adolescent Content, and Sukeban Magazine, among others.

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