From 30 March to 3 April, Microcosm & Macrocosm, a solo exhibition by artist Yaxuan Liao, was presented at Apsara Studio. The exhibition unfolds through the concept of the “Resonance Archive”, tracing the shifting relationships between personal memory, identity, historical structures, and the wider cosmic order.
Yaxuan Liao reworks archival materials as static documentation and living systems of transformation. Artists transform information such as migration data, family memories, mental health statistics, as well as stellar life cycles and constellation trajectories into visual and auditory forms. The works create a perceptual space that transcends time and scale, closely linking micro existence with the macro universe, personal experience with collective history, and creating echoes between the past and present in the same time dimension. In this interwoven audio-visual environment, data fragments, abstract structures, and historical narratives are constantly generated, reorganised, and extended, allowing the audience to perceive the fluid relationship between identity, memory, and spiritual experience. The layering of images and sounds is like the pulsation of life, connecting individual life with social and cosmic systems, presenting an interactive resonance of history, nature, and spirit.
Through this visual language that lies between science, history, and perceptual experiments, Yaxuan Liao has constructed a dynamic and constantly generating perceptual field. Here, the audience is not only bystanders, but also a part of the resonance system, experiencing the echoes formed in the continuous interweaving, flow, and recombination of micro and macro, individual and collective, past and present. The work presents a fragile yet profound state of existence – a multidimensional life network that constantly changes, reorganizes, and spans time and space.
