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Shannon Liang

video , Taal , performance , installatie , Audiovisueel

Shannon Liang is an artist based in Rotterdam and New York, whose work arises from a process of daily documentation and self archiving. Shannon’s practice spans writing, video installation, performance, and drawing. Recent research traces permeability and interconnection across chemical, emotional, generational, and spiritual distances. Born in Baltimore, she is a recent graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute: Lens-Based Media MFA program in Rotterdam.

Fourth Eye
Fourth Eye - Solo Exhibition. Shifting between interior reflections and collaborative exchanges, Fourth Eye looks for ways to make meaning from the daily experiences of our lives. While offering reflections on loss, sight, and memory, the exhibition draws from spiritual frameworks as prompts for connection and understanding.
Fourth Eye
Fourth Eye - Solo Exhibition. Shifting between interior reflections and collaborative exchanges, Fourth Eye looks for ways to make meaning from the daily experiences of our lives. While offering reflections on loss, sight, and memory, the exhibition draws from spiritual frameworks as prompts for connection and understanding.
Fourth Eye
Fourth Eye - Solo Exhibition. Shifting between interior reflections and collaborative exchanges, Fourth Eye looks for ways to make meaning from the daily experiences of our lives. While offering reflections on loss, sight, and memory, the exhibition draws from spiritual frameworks as prompts for connection and understanding.
After Lasik
After Lasik - Film, 19 min. "This meditative exploration of vision – both literal and metaphorical – finds symbolic ways to convey the traumatic loss of Shannon Liang’s then-partner. The film opens with unflinching footage of Liang’s own laser eye surgery, which leaves her with a persistent ‘halo’ distortion in her left eye. In this sensitive short film about the transformative power of grief, the ‘halo’ becomes both a symbol of impaired vision and an enigmatic marker of loss, subtly shifting the way we perceive the world around us." – Hugo Emmerzael. World Premiered at the 54th Edition of IFFR 2025.
After Lasik
After Lasik - Film, 19 min. "This meditative exploration of vision – both literal and metaphorical – finds symbolic ways to convey the traumatic loss of Shannon Liang's then-partner. The film opens with unflinching footage of Liang's own laser eye surgery, which leaves her with a persistent 'halo' distortion in her left eye. In this sensitive short film about the transformative power of grief, the 'halo' becomes both a symbol of impaired vision and an enigmatic marker of loss, subtly shifting the way we perceive the world around us." – Hugo Emmerzael. World Premiered at the 54th Edition of IFFR 2025.
After Lasik
After Lasik - Film, 19 min. "This meditative exploration of vision – both literal and metaphorical – finds symbolic ways to convey the traumatic loss of Shannon Liang's then-partner. The film opens with unflinching footage of Liang's own laser eye surgery, which leaves her with a persistent 'halo' distortion in her left eye. In this sensitive short film about the transformative power of grief, the 'halo' becomes both a symbol of impaired vision and an enigmatic marker of loss, subtly shifting the way we perceive the world around us." – Hugo Emmerzael. World Premiered at the 54th Edition of IFFR 2025.
Magnum. Odorless. Ballerina Summerhouse. - Reading, 5 minutes, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
Touching Feeling - Performance, 6 hours, cards, incense, fabric, wood, grapes, bone, shell, rock. Presented at Framer Framed, Amsterdam as part of the Non Native Native Fair
The Sun Burns An Image Into My Eye - Two-channel video installation, loop, 15 min, preserved flowers, sesame seeds. The Sun Burns An Image Into My Eye asks, are we permeable? Are the boundaries that separate us less clear than we think? Can we reach across distances through the things we hold on to—through what remains? The installation invites viewers to look closely at the transformative cycles meandering through mundane life— of baking, gardening, a sunburn, a leaky shower—to look for resonance.
The Sun Burns An Image Into My Eye - Two-channel video installation, loop, 15 min, preserved flowers, sesame seeds. Installation view at V2_, Rotterdam
Drench Your Lips In Rich Luxurious Color - Video, 4 mins. Shot in the Netherlands—the largest flower exporter worldwide—at Keukenhof Gardens, where 7 million flower bulbs are planted annually, the footage displays endless varieties of vibrant tulips in neat human-made geometric plots. Shots are quick and sharp, cutting from one to the next. Suddenly we see plots of green stems sliced across at the top—beheaded flowers. Drooping petals come into view that will soon meet their beheaded fate as well.
Drench Your Lips In Rich Luxurious Color - Screened at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam.
9:58 PM Meeting - Video
Portals - Series of 6 cyanotypes, 28x38cm
Sunburn - 9x23cm, hosta leaf, wild flowers, sun

Fourth Eye (forthcoming)

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Locatie: WET

Forthcoming solo exhibition

Peche de Nuits

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Locatie: Peach

A Mic of One’s Own: Waste

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Locatie: Kunstinstituut Melly
In samenwerking met: The Writer's Guide to the Galaxy

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity

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Locatie: Rib
In samenwerking met: Soupspoon Collective

Non Native Native Fair: PRO$PERITY NOW!

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Locatie: Framer Framed
In samenwerking met: Non Native Native

NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR is a unique gathering of creative practitioners from diverse backgrounds, which showcases old and new projects and products in the form of a trade fair. This public fair serves as an alternative space for exchange for the outsiders from within; critical creative practitioners between the Asian and European cultural landscapes, with a particular focus on contemporary visual culture. Our mission is to bring together diverse Asian narratives and foster critical artistic and d

54 BPM

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Locatie: V2_Lab for the Unstable Media

Tent Online Cinema

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Locatie: Tent Online

Glitter

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Locatie: Echo Leahy Center for Lake Champlain

Non Native Native Fair

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Locatie: WORM Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Non Native Native

NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR is an online event that brings together Asian creative cultural practitioners from various backgrounds and disciplines to participate in an experimental online trade fair environment.

https://www.nnnfair.com/fair/

Everything Breaks / I Am Sick of Taking Walks

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Locatie: Eye Filmmuseum

Group film screening as part of the Eye Research Labs.

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