Provocative visual artist Beili Liu’s work confronts themes of migration, cultural memory, and labor to explore the severity of the climate crisis on a global scale. She will sit down with curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi to discuss Liu’s body of work and new monograph. Mend – not to be confused with Liu’s The Mending Project, an installation of 1,500 Chinese scissors suspended threateningly from a ceiling above the artist sewing calmly below – captures over 20 years of personal artistic exploration and features essays from artists across the country. – Catharine Li