EXHIBITION DETAILS

Spring of 2025

Location: Community Center for Creativity, 200 Mathews St, Fort Collins, CO 80524

The Conch Girl Project

In this socially engaged project that utilizes cooking to co-nurture the mutual care for strangers in New York City, Sidian Liu asks strangers to let her use their kitchens in solitude--in return, she cooks them a meal. The photos from each kitchen visit is later be printed large and wheat-pasted on the green construction boards on the New York City streets. The street publication is both a presentation and an open call that invites future collaboration. 

The Conch Girl Project Fort Collins

In this socially engaged project that utilizes cooking to co-nurture the mutual care for strangers, Sidian Liu asks strangers to let her use their kitchens in solitude--in return, she cooks them a meal.

Sidian Liu is an image-based artist, translator, and home builder. Her practice reacts to a sense of displacement by utilizing images, text, performance, installation, and socially engaged methods. Her works address the issue of social barriers, and through her work she focuses on the participation and interaction of the public, facilitating intimacy from a distance while establishing a space to feel belonging through an exchange of trust and respect.

Sidian Liu was born in 1997 in Foshan, China. She obtained her BA in English at Shanghai International Studies University in 2019, and her MFA in Photography at Parsons, The New School in 2023.

Sidian is the recipient of the Snider Prize (MoCP, US, 2023), the 9th Annual Photography Rankings in China (Photography Museum of Lishui, China, 2022), “Kunpeng Award'' of China Young Photographer Promotion Plan (the 21st Pingyao International Photography Festival, China, 2021), the top prize of First Female Photographer Competition by Miroir Project (China, 2021), and the top prize of Banshan Photography Award (Japan, 2020), etc. Her works have been shown in Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Lishui, and New York City.