Their practice explores identity, perception, desire, and the ways that images shape how we understand ourselves and one another. Drawing on their experience as a queer, nonbinary Chinese-American artist and on contemporary image culture, they examine the relationship between self-representation and spectatorship, paying particular attention to visibility, intimacy, racialization, and the politics of looking.
Working primarily through lens-based media, they approach the camera not simply as a tool for documentation, but as an interface through which identity is staged, performed, and negotiated. Their work moves between personal and constructed imagery, often engaging the visual languages of fashion, advertising, social media, and digital culture.
Liu’s work has been featured by Refinery29, Polyester Zine, Aether Magazine, Girlgaze, Adolescent Content, and Sukeban Magazine, among others.