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Pixy Liao - “Always Keep an Eye on the One You Love”

On view
April 25, 2026 - May 29, 2026
Mon-Fri / 9 am – 5 pm

Pixy Liao’s Experimental Relationship opens a space where the boundary between lived experience and performance is never fully fixed. Developed over nearly two decades, the series unfolds as an ongoing exploration of intimacy and power through self-portraits of the artist and her partner, Moro. What begins as a personal investigation extends beyond the relationship itself. The images are not documentary, but staged. Their bodies become both subject and material, as the distinction blurs into a site of play and testing.

Always Keep an Eye on the One You Love presents a selection of works from this ongoing series. Shot across two distinct spaces—the former apartment of Chicago mobster “Joey the Clown” and a secluded cabin in Beacon—Liao and Moro move between a dense, enclosed atmosphere and a more open, subdued one, as each setting shapes the encounter.

A fine line between care and control runs through the work. Gestures of attention can turn into vigilance. What appears tender may also constrain. Domestic scenes are charged with both suspense and tenderness, edged with a dry, understated humour.

In this constellation of images, each proposes a temporary configuration in which positions are reversed or suspended. In Head-Hiding Haven, the first impression suggests eroticism, but on closer attention their gestures oscillate between refuge and confinement, control and protection. In Slow Dance, bodies move in close synchrony, a moment of shared trust and closeness. In Doll Up, the logic of play becomes more explicit: they appear dressed, arranged as objects, equally given over to the staging.

What emerges is not a stable image of the couple, but a shifting set of possibilities. Intimacy is closely examined, revealing the assumptions that shape it. Liao’s work does not resolve into a fixed meaning, but keeps the dynamics of care and control in love moving between tension, tenderness, and humour.

Text: Madi Canals

* Photos: Pixy Liao / Installation photos: Juan David Cortés

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Installation view, “Always Keep an Eye on the One You Love”, Pixy Liao. Florit/Florit, Mallorca, 2026

From Housecat to Househusband, 2025. Digital print. 50 x 37,50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Head-Hiding Haven, 2025. Digital print. 100 x 75 cm. Courtesy of the artist

The capture, 2024. Digital print. 37,50 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Two Bodies, 2024. Digital print. 37,50 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Head in the Water Tank, 2024. Digital print. 50 x 37,50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Reaching Over to Your Side, 2024. Digital print. 50 x 37,50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Slow Dance, 2024. Digital print. 50 x 37,50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Jet Lag, 2025. Digital print. 100 x 75 cm. Courtesy of the artist

House-Husband’s Weapons, 2025. Digital print. 100 x 75 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Doll Up, 2024. Digital print. 37,50 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Nighty Night, 2025. Digital print. 50 x 37,50 cm.Courtesy of the artist

Always Keep an Eye on the One You Love, 2025. Digital print. 37,50 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist

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Press reviews

- Alvaro Granada, Pixy Liao: Dinámicas de poder y afecto en la era moderna, NEO2, April 2026. Read here

- Dan Ginn, Sex, Composition and Jello: Inside Pixy Liao’s Visual Love Letter, Them Frames, Mar 2025 . Read here

- Martin Kaninsky, Two Bodies, One Home: How Pixy Liao Reinvented Domestic Space Through Living Furniture, about photography, Dec 2025. Read here

- Aimee Walleston, How Many Artists From One Gallery Can I Date?’ Pixy Liao Answers Your Dilemmas, Ocula, Aug 2025. Read here

- Yechen Zhao, “Share Everything”: Music with Pixy and Moro, Inside the Exhibition AIC, May 2025. Read here
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