19/10/2025
Being Human: Forging Fields of Experience
Sculptor: Liu Po-Chun
Writer/Curator: Dr Susie Lingham
Organized by: SCULPTURE 2052
Show Venue: Art Space @ Helutrans, Singapore
Show Period: 31st Oct 2025 (Friday) - 30th Nov 2025 (Sunday)
9 am - 6 pm (Daily)
Official Opening:
2 pm, 1st NOV 2025 (Saturday)
Guest-of-honor: Prof Kwok Kian Woon
2:30 pm: Curator speech + dialogue with artist
Speaker: Prof Liu Po-Chun, Dr Susie Lingham
Moderator: Tan Yen Peng
Artist Talk:
6:30 pm - 8 pm, 29th OCT 2025 (Wednesday)
"Archaeology and Contemporary Iron Art: Liu Bo-Chun 2022 @ Thirteen Hong Museum, Taipei*"
Curatorial brief:
How would a sculptor embody “conscience” and “respect for others” as qualities of power and strength within the individual human mind? How does the phenomenological represent the psychological? Sculpture as a discipline, despite paradigmatic shifts in perspectives on what could constitute art, remains a deep engagement with material and formal truths. Apprenticed to his chosen medium, the sculptor and chosen medium mutually condition each other within projected possibilities and stretching of perceived limits.
https://sculpture2052.com/being-human-2025
With the sculptor Liu Po-Chun, this wrestle becomes physically acute when the chosen material is recycled industrial steel. The conceptual dimension is forged in the physical process, wrested from this process, claimed as part of phenomenological reality: a test of, and a desire for a steely demonstration, and representation, of strength, while necessarily acknowledging frailty, anxiety, self-doubt. This wrestle is a commitment to being human, yielding to the challenges of the material, which demands honesty – and compromise – from the sculptor. For Liu, the hand-forged object is emotionally powerful, and a kind of transmutation takes place: century-old objects, once useful, memoried, are smelted down to fluid materiality, and re-membered. Agency, and mediumship, forged amidst doubt and anxiety: sculpture lays down being as ground, and claims ground for being.