Glass Wave Plates, 2012

Lijn has used glass in her work, since the 1960’s. The Glass Wave Plates were originally made as playful experiments, while she was working on her Torn Heads series at the Hergiswil Glasi in Switzerland.
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Caution Matter, 2012

Caution Matter is an immersive moving image presentation that explores connections between invisible energies, latent both in ancient archetypes and myths and in the huge diversity of transformational technologies operative today.
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Light Pyramid, 2012

Commissioned by MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Parks Trust as a sculpture beacon. Geometry and Light are the guiding threads of Lijn's work. The central concept of this sculpture is that of energy held within matter.
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Solar Beacon, Golden Gate Bridge, 2012

Solar Beacon is a sci-art installation on top of the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge that reflects the Sun's light throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, celebrating the man-made structure's 75th anniversary. It is a white-light variation of Solar Hills, the ongoing collaboration between John Vallerga and Liliane Lijn to delineate the horizon with point of spectral light. Observers of Solar Beacon will see two points of white light, one on each tower top, that are as bright as the Sun, but much smaller in size.
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Power Game, Zabludowicz Collection, London

19th April 2012

Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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Lava Flow Cuff, 2011

Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Meteor Cuff, 2007 – 2011

Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Meteor Cuff, 2011-2017

Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Who Will Say, 2011

Poemdrums are related to Lijn’s early work with text, Poem Machines (1962). Like the Poem Machines, they spin, disengaging words from the composed text.
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Glass Feet, 2011

Poemdrums are related to Lijn’s early work with text, Poem Machines (1962). Like the Poem Machines, they spin, disengaging words from the composed text.
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Dark Matter, 2011

Poemdrums are related to Lijn’s early work with text, Poem Machines (1962). Like the Poem Machines, they spin, disengaging words from the composed text.
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Essential Forest, 2011

Poemdrums are related to Lijn’s early work with text, Poem Machines (1962). Like the Poem Machines, they spin, disengaging words from the composed text.
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