Necklaces - Liliane Lijn

Woman of War, 1986

Lijn wanted the sculpture to come alive and decided that it would enact the drama of the song. It then became apparent that Woman of War would sing to Lady of the Wild Things which would respond to the song with light.
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She drawings series, 1984-1986

She was the title Lijn gave to a series of numerous drawings, which she began in order to find a new image for what she felt was the essence of the feminine.
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Conjunction of Opposites: Lady of the Wild Things and Woman of War, 1986

Two mixed media performing sculptures enact a computer controlled 6 minute drama which includes movement, song, the transformation of sound to light, and a laser display.
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Blue Buzzing Bee, 1985

It seems that the origins of saintly halos derive from the historical fact that bees were seen to swarm around the heads of Hindu and Buddhist saints.
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Basket Head, 1985

Lijn sees Head-Dresses as extensions of the Head. Anything worn on the head is also part of it and expresses it’s powers and restrictions. As in the veil or the mask worn by women to conceal and suppress them.
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She Bird, 1985

Big Spotted Ruby, 1984/1985

A sculpture comprising of horizontal sheets of Mica attached to a copper wire structure that give the piece an organic form like fungus or a desert rose.
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Red Net, 1985

Lijn sees Head-Dresses as extensions of the Head. Anything worn on the head is also part of it and expresses it’s powers and restrictions. As in the veil or the mask worn by women to conceal and suppress them.
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Liliane Lijn: Heads

Galerie Peter Ludwig, 1985
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Night and Day, 1985

Both Night and Day and She's so Blue take their titles from songs imbued with melancholy: the blues. In these works she blends geometry with African art and sound with Art Deco from the 30’s and 40’s. Lijn wants her work to be as many layered as possible.
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