There’s a certain fatalism to much of Liu’s practice, whether that be in questioning whether two people are destined to fall in love, or in addressing the inevitability of dying. Shot deep in the woods, Liu merges fragments of her own body with the natural world, creating scenes where skin, light and leaf blend into something timeless. What emerges is a story of letting go, asking “whether we must sometimes destroy the image to see the truth.”Chronicle of a Death Foretold, presented at SaltSpace, Glasgow, marks an important moment in Liu’s practice. This presentation situates Liu’s work within a wider UK-based contemporary art context, in which questions of relational fragility and embodied experience are increasingly foregrounded. We may be living in an era marked by withdrawal and disconnection, but Lui’s work suggests an alternative way of meaningful living.