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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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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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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