Public Programme Formula 1: Maia Liu
Open discussion with the artist
Who owns this, and can I have it?
A Reflection on Experimental Collaborative Film Practices
Perhaps we could briefly situate what happened… not to go into specifics or the events between X and me, but to offer a little framework so that the situation is understandable… Given everything that has happened around this exhibition and between us, it feels important to create some space for a conversation. I’m wondering: would you be open to this, and how do you feel about it yourselves?
I’d love to hear what you think, and how you feel about having this conversation together.
Warm wishes,
Maia
What does it mean to make something together? How do we navigate difference, conflict, and discomfort—within ourselves and with others—and can we approach these constructively? Join us on Sunday for an open conversation with Maia Liu and the curators of Formula 1 about autonomy, authorship and boundaries in collaborative art practices.
Maia Liu (b. 1999, based in Rotterdam) is an artist working with experimental film, exploring tensions between individuality and relationality in the formation of identity. Her work often revolves around mirrored or merging perspectives—a recurring poetics of doubling that reflects how the self is shaped through others. Approaching film as a practice of compassion, she focuses on subtle, everyday gestures through which the camera moves as a character in itself, revealing the friction between autonomy and connectedness, self and other, the personal and the collective. Aesthetic and ethical concerns are deeply entangled, particularly in relation to friendship, migration, and the responsibilities that come with representing others.
The exhibition is open until 01.11.2025, every Thursday-Saturday from 13:00-18:00. The public programme is free of charge. Doors open at 19:00 and the discussion starts at 19:30 sharp.
