closing reception: Friday April 19. 6-8pm

"The Long Season / 漫长的季节" presents an exploration of how trauma impacts my body, from childhood experiences to their ongoing effects. Through the intersectional lenses of identity, culture, and gender, I navigate my bodily trauma, using the process of constructing images as a cathartic as a means of catharsis and subverting. Through this exhibition, audiences are invited to engage with the complexities of trauma, survival, and the power of images as an alternative language.”

Biography

Jiayi Liang is a Chinese artist, working on ideas at the intersection of feminism, trauma, and photography. Liang utilizes the lens, paper cutouts, and physical collages to explore the relationship between trauma and her creative practice. Her work has been included in SPE the 12th International Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition; She received an Honorable Shortlist recognition for the Photo Forum Santa Fe Photography Award in 2021 and showed her work "Don’t Tell Your Mom”. Liang is a current MA candidate at the University of Iowa (2024). She received her BFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico.