Liszu Tan’s artwork crosses sculpture, performance and drawings. Often treating materials and objects like skin and bones. At times blending disappearing marks onto bodily surfaces. Extensions of her embodied Butoh gestures. She is fascinated by facets related to the body. From its inner workings to the moving body and the underlying politics that govern its presence in space. She utilises the vocabulary of abstraction and gestures to create assemblages of objects that allude to narratives about the body’s relationship to space, time and memories. Stretchy morphing soft sculptures, liminal wood structure with hinge curtains, bouncing bowling ball. Her sculptures can be inhabited, interacted with and respond architecturally. She is also anosmic and works with scent, texture and disappearing colour to engage with this missing sensory input.
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Education
2024-2025 Royal College of Art, London (MA Sculpture)
2022-2023 Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore (MA Fine Arts)
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Refrains on the Edge of Appearance, Outhouse Gallery, London
The Ink Slowly Vanishes, Raw Butoh Night, Berlin
Cosmic Garden, Comma Festival, Singapore
2025 ARK | Parrhesia, guest edited by Ryan Gander, Royal College of Art
House Warming, Safehouse 2, London
Assemble / Fall, Somers Gallery, London
2024 Scent & Memory, ATTA Gallery, Bangkok
Nothing But A Daydream, Supperhouse, Singapore
2023 AIR || AIR, Winston Oh Travelogue Award, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2019 Maybe Something Will Appear, PADA Studios, Lisbon
Residency
2025 Fall Artist-in-Residence, BANFF Centre for Arts & Creativity
2019 Artist-in-Residence, PADA Studios, Lisbon