Rainytong (Qiuxiang Liu)
About
Rainy Tong (Qiuxiang Liu) is a painter (b. 1986, China) based in London. Rainy has participated in a range of residencies and exhibitions both in China and London. She held a solo exhibition “While Repeating I Love You, Nothing Will Die!” in July 2022 in China. Her upcoming solo show will open on July 14 at RuptureXIBIT in London.
Rainy’s work centers on the female body. Her works spans painting, sculpture, installation, performance and poetry, explores the themes of beauty, gender and sexuality, establishing a “Love-Desire-scape” by drawing the female body with dangerous, erotic, and violent ways-delving into the rupture embedded within it. Through exploring the body itself, Rainy aims to liberate the female body from its position in history and mainstream culture by challenging artistic conventions and disrupting social norms.
The bodies in Rainy’s works are entangled in ambitious lines, wild drips, and explosive brushstrokes. They are faceless, boneless, and amorphous—presenting love and desire, rapture and rupture, constructing cross-cultural narratives of beauty and gender fluidity, making the invisible visible.
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