White Fantasy
February 20 – February 26, 2025 / Curated by FLOHAUS Gallery
Artist: Yucen Liu
FLOHAUS Gallery is pleased to announce White Fantasy, a solo exhibition by Yucen Liu, curated by the FLOHAUS Gallery. The exhibition will take place from February 20 to February 26, 2025.
Systems, interfaces, bodies, and control. In White Fantasy, Yucen Liu brings together a series of works spanning his ongoing projects Jade UI, QR Rulers, and earlier medical-themed practices. Through a hybrid language of design, sculpture, and speculative imagery, Liu constructs a world where technological systems and bodily forms are entangled, questioned, and reimagined.
The exhibition traces Liu’s evolving interest in how invisible structures—digital interfaces, measurement systems, and medical frameworks—shape perception and regulate the body. In Jade UI, interface aesthetics are translated into material form, evoking both cultural symbolism and contemporary digital environments. The works operate as sculptural interfaces, where jade-like surfaces mimic the logic of screens, suggesting a quiet fusion between tradition and algorithmic systems.
The QR Rulers extend this inquiry into measurement and standardization. By combining QR code logic with physical measuring tools, Liu reflects on the ways bodies and objects are encoded, quantified, and made legible within technological infrastructures. Measurement here becomes both a practical function and a metaphor for control, raising questions about who defines value, scale, and identity.
Liu’s earlier medical-related works introduce a more visceral dimension to the exhibition. Mechanical, fragmented, and often speculative, these imagined bodies expose the tension between organic life and institutional systems of care. They echo a clinical aesthetic while simultaneously destabilizing it, revealing the body not as a fixed entity but as something continuously reconstructed through technology, diagnosis, and imagination.
The title White Fantasy points to the illusion of neutrality embedded within systems—white as cleanliness, rationality, and authority. Yet beneath this surface lies a layered fiction: a constructed reality where interfaces promise clarity while concealing complexity. Liu’s works inhabit this ambiguity, offering neither critique nor resolution, but instead opening a space where viewers confront the infrastructures that quietly shape their everyday existence.
