LINSEED is excited to present After Solaris, a solo exhibition by the Paris based Chinese artist FU Liang (b. 1993, China) at Focus Sector of Frieze Seoul 2025, showcasing his recent explorations in sculpture and installation alongside his signature mineral pigment paintings. Fu’s practice is deeply rooted in East Asian epistemology and philosophy, traversing diverse materials to investigate themes of transformation and cycles of life, the dialectics of being and non-being, and the flow of emotions and memory within the folds of time. Fu has long engaged with the bodily, cultural, and psychological dimensions of diasporic experience, seeking to unravel the complex entanglement between self and environment.

This exhibition constructs an enduring gaze into time and space through materials such as minerals and graphite, as well as cosmic imagery, while simultaneously offering a reflective gaze from the abyss that centers on the unknowability of the human mind. The tension between symbols and forms from human history, materiality, and higher intelligence invites a renewed contemplation of the role desire plays within consciousness, the unconscious, and memory. The exhibition draws inspiration from Tarkovsky’s Solaris, and further develops ideas Fu contemplated during his residency at La Residencia in Mallorca—especially the intricate relationship between environment and life. It dwells in the interstices of loneliness and warmth, fear and hope, traversing between cosmic scales and atomic individuals—while questioning whether such distance exists at all.

Central to the exhibition is also the metaphorical relationship between minerals and the body, and how they together relate to the cosmos, positioning the human as a fragile and insignificant presence within the vastness of the universe. In his sculptural work, metaphors of celestial bodies and constellations subtly echo the mineral materiality of his paintings. The fluidity of materials in his painterly techniques resonates with a philosophical inquiry into the nature of being and existence itself.