Mind Set Art Center’s Project Room presents A Slash of Blue, a focused presentation by Taiwanese artist Mia Liu featuring new works from her ongoing “Rolling Project” series. The exhibition runs from December 6, 2025 to January 10, 2026, with an opening reception on Saturday, December 6 at 4:00 pm. All are warmly invited to join us.
The exhibition takes its point of departure from a sentence in Emma Dexter’s book Vitamin D: “Drawing is a feeling, an attitude that is betrayed in its handling as much as in the materials used.” Encountering this line for the first time was a shock for Liu. Within contemporary art discourse, “feeling” is often the least discussed and the easiest to overlook, yet for her it has always been the most crucial and delicate aspect of her practice. A Slash of Blue circles back to this core.
Here, feeling is allowed to surface with particular clarity. The works gather around what Liu describes as a sense of “cuteness,” though she is wary of fixing it in place, as her own statement suggests: “The works in this exhibition orbit around a particular sensibility—one that might be described, however provisionally, as “cuteness.” Whether this sensation arises from the interplay of minute and fragile elements, from a materiality that appears delicate yet quietly assertive, or from the slow drift of color as it shapes a space that feels almost touchable, remains open to interpretation. What is certain is the atmosphere that forms: gentle, tentative, yet insistently present. At times, defining what something is not proves far easier than declaring what it is. Perhaps this sensibility resembles the fleeting trace of blue in Emily Dickinson’s verse—shifting from dawn to dusk, never fixed, never at rest, constantly becoming.”
Paper, in Liu’s practice, is never a passive support. It behaves like a body and a skin, absorbing memory and emotion and then unfolding them in multiple forms. In the Curling series, she stains and paints narrow strips of cut paper with ink or acrylic, then curls, layers, and assembles them. Color and light interweave across repeated units, while stacked paper planes and drawing-like gestures create subtle shifts of depth and rhythm. Under changing light, lines, textures, and tones blend into one another, turning the works into three-dimensional drawing sculptures that vibrate between image, sound, and feeling.