Light and Memory

Thames & Hudson, London, 2002

This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition Liliane Lijn: Light and Memory at Rocca di Umbertide, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy, 29 June – 12 September 2002
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First Words, 2000

Lijn’s plan is to collect 2000 first words: a word for each year since the birth of Christ. The ‘children’ in question can be grownups now as long as their first word is either remembered or documented.
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Her Mother’s Voice, 1996-98

In Her Mother’s Voice Lijn asked her mother to remember her life. She then transcribed the oral tapes, endeavouring to retain the unique character of her voice. Her Mother's Voice focuses on memory and an individual's history, which is also the history of the artist and on a broader scale that of the forced exoduses and resettlements of a generation of Russian and European Jews.
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Crossing Map (Book), 1983

In Crossing Map, a woman artist questions the meaning of time, enters the web of her memory, and transcending the present, discovers a world bearing no trace of man’s presence. There she meets the last man and is witness to the death of her society and the dematerialization of man.
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