Deadbooks Gallery · Artist
Qingshan Liu
刘青山 / aoyama
Born in Chongqing, China · Based in Osaka, Japan
The body, memory and intimacy, photographed through encounters with everyday life and nature.
About
Qingshan Liu (aoyama) is a photographer and artist based in Osaka, Japan. Born in Chongqing in 1994, he explores the body, memory, desire and intimate relationships through photography.
Working largely with natural light in everyday and natural environments, Liu approaches the body as a way of experiencing the world. His photographs attend to vulnerability and the changing relationships between people, places and memory, preserving fleeting moments of lived experience.
Selected works
Swimming in the Ruins
Selected photographs from Swimming in the Ruins. The exhibition brings together work made in Chongqing between 2019 and 2022, alongside photographs from 2024, reflecting on the vulnerability of bodies, relationships and memory.
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High Heels and Red Fruit, 2019
© Qingshan Liu
Afternoon, the Body, 2021
© Qingshan Liu
After the Touch, 2021
© Qingshan Liu
Practising Breathing, 2021
© Qingshan Liu
Figure Lying in the Ruins, 2024
© Qingshan Liu
Selected exhibitions
October 3–18, 2026
Swimming in the Ruins
Solo exhibition
Photism (Huan Space) · Chengdu, China
Read the exhibition & introduction ↗July 3–5, 2026
Soft Testimonies
Two-person exhibition with Toki Matsuda
Deadbooks Gallery · Osaka, Japan
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