Liliane Lijn has created sculptures based around the form of the koan since the sixties. This body of work, within her whole practice, is subject to great variety and subtlety. read more
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. read more
Playing with reject pages from Her Mother’s Voice and fallen petals or flowers past their prime, Lijn used both watercolour to blur the printed words and faded flowers as an evocation of the nostalgia of time gone by. read more