Liu Xiaodong: Weight of Insomnia

by Karen Archey

Quantifying the emotional burden of everyday life through the use of surveillance cameras and a robotic painting machine

Since 2015, Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong (born 1963) has been developing a technologically radical project to create landscape paintings using robotic arms and surveillance cameras. Collectively entitled Weight of Insomnia, this series of paintings is an attempt to quantify the emotional burden carried...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0947830715
• ISBN13: 9780947830717
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Lisson Gallery
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 12.7"