Bio-morph begins with a small group of Liu Shiming's more experimental works, highlighting a quieter and more abstract dimension of his practice. In these pieces, the body loosens into contour and volume. Handles suggest arms, openings echo torsos, and surfaces feel shaped as much by growth and erosion as by the hand that made them. Figures emerge from and dissolve back into form, nested, contained, always in the process of becoming. These works reveal a distinctive aspect of Liu's sculpture, where organic form and material presence come together with unusual freedom.

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The term "biomorph" describes forms derived from living organisms-informed by nature and modeled on the logic of growth and flux. But Bio-morph holds a second meaning: biology that morphs. Life not as stable form but as process. It is this double sense that animates the works of the five recipients of the 2024 and 2025 Liu Shiming Artist Grants, brought together here in their first collective exhibition.

Across installation, sculpture, and material experimentation, the recipients approach this idea in distinct ways, Some works are biomorphic in the immediate formal sense, their shapes drawn directly from the natural systems.

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Others locate transformation in process and material-in the gradual accumulation of labor, in organic matter that persists and mutates beyond its original function, in the threshold between birth and loss, Together they form a body of work that is porous and alive, where change is a living condition. The exhibition is at once a testament to Liu Shiming's expansive approach to form and a celebration of the Foundation's grant recipients who carry that spirit forward.

Bio-morph Brochure