Radoslaw Liwen’s work explores the tension between simplicity and complexity through a distinctive visual language developed since his debut series, Eighteen by Fourteen (2015). Characterised by the fragmentation and reassembly of figures, planes, and patterns, his paintings operate within a precise structure of vertical and horizontal arrangements, often framed by open, expansive skies.

At first glance, the clarity and clean aesthetic of his compositions offer a kind of visual
pause, a deliberate antidote to the saturation of images and data in contemporary life. Yet beneath this surface calm lies an intricate architecture of associations and meanings.

Viewers are invited to interpret the modular elements of each work freely, suggesting that perception itself is a collaborative process - one where individual fragments may be recombined to form entirely new narratives.

Much of Liwen’s imagery is drawn from fleeting moments: anonymous buildings glimpsed from a train, silhouettes caught in peripheral vision, the unexpected geometry of unfamiliar cities. These incidental views, collected from both daily routines and distant travels, become the raw material for a practice that is as much about observation as it is about reconstruction.