Zero Gravity Koan, 2004

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. Koans are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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Inner Light III, 2003

Commissioned by St. Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospital Charitable Trust for the Maternity Ward of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London.
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Liquid Koan, 2003

Layers of colour appear distinct and separate or merge into one another depending on the angle at which they are seen. The cone is seen as both solid and fluid within the medium of light.
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Nested Foot, 2001

Lijn was walking barefoot on the island of Mykonos when, all at once, she realised that we are connected to the earth only through the soles of our feet. What energies, she wondered, might pass between the foot and the mother planet?
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Lilith, 2001

Lilith burns with the fire of passion and unquenchable life. Fire deposits carbon shadows on the bronze of the sculpture. Carbon is the essential element of life.
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Revealing, 2001

In this series of text works, Lijn wants words to be interchangeable with colour. Whether she works with a poet’s words or her own text, she wants the words to float into the viewers mind in continually changing sequences. Meaning, like a river, is always in flux.
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Divided Self, 2001

Divided Self invites one to think of oneself as partly transparent, open, knowable and partly opaque and unfathomable. One thinks of the Self as whole whereas the individual psyche can fragment into innumerable figures, a cast of thousands.
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Table, 2000

This table is part of a series of functional works Lijn created after seeing an exhibition of Diego Giacometti's furniture in the early 1980s.
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Rainforest Wall, 2000-2001

At the moment in which negative and positive come together the pattern becomes invisible or dissolves into nothing, just as in physics when negative and positive particles meet. Lijn managed to use the thickness of the glass to keep the image just visible during the transition.
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First Words, 2000, published by Lightline Press & Gefn Press, London 2000

19 laminated full-colour cards held in a plastic slipcase with flower hairband. Liliane Lijn contributed First Words to the Volumes (of vulnerability) project, published by the Gefn Press in 2000. Curated by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell, the project is a portable "gallery" housed in an aluminium tin containing 23 artists' books. Lijn’s plan is to collect 2000 first words: a word for each year since the birth of Christ.
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