After December 13, 1937, Japanese forces perpetrated a brutal massacre in Nanjing, Jiangsu. During this period, American missionary Minnie Vautrin documented the atrocities in her diary, leaving behind irrefutable testimony of the devastation.
The exhibition presents 21 self-portraits created between 1995 and 2024. Liu explained that each portrait embodies a different version of himself, enabling him to explore and understand various facets of his identity.
On September 1, 2025, Daozi, contemporary art critic, painter, poet, artist, and professor at the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University, passed away in Beijing from leukemia at the age of 69.