You and Me begins with a gaze toward and awareness of everyday objects in their most honest state. When an egg is embedded into the old leather headboard, marked with traces like skin, the inherent functionality of both is quietly dissolved, giving way to a new spatial and visual narrative. This narrative is constructed by the forms and textures of the objects themselves, as well as the flowing memories within the viewer's consciousness. Here, space transforms into a soft medium that connects different living entities.

Between the egg and the headboard, an intimate, almost accidental fit emerges- resembling a kind of private relational grammar. Through photography, the viewer is invited into this frozen, miniature scene—to perceive directly and purely a kind of fragile yet perfect encounter that may exist between objects.

Liu Xueyu (born 1993) received her BFA from the School of Experimental Art, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2016 and her MFA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London in 2018.
Her practice centers on the spatial nomadism of daily objects. By stripping away their functional shells, she returns objects to their primal materiality and form, thereby reconfiguring their narrative identity. These objects are then introduced into new spatial contexts, where, through a process of adjustment and adaptation, they find an imagistic mode of dwelling. The entire procedure unfolds like a silent fugue, where diverse materials and memories settle, interact, and ultimately open up a distinctive perceptual path through the daylife for the viewer.

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