Veiled, 2020

Referencing both tribal architecture and a veiled female presence, Veiled’s form recalls the conical skeleton of a thipi (or tipi), a tent traditionally made of animal skins draped on wooden poles.
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Power Hanky, 2020

Made during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, this LRRH_ Contribution edition is a tribute to an almost forgotten accessory of personal hygiene: the handkerchief.
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Tulip Mine, 2017

A limited edition print produced for the touring exhibition and portfolio Turkish Tulips by the House of Fairytales.
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Power Game edition

November 2016

Power Game is a boxed limited edition of two games and an oracle. It comes in a numbered, signed and dated edition of 100. It is made up of the full set of 108 word cards that Liliane Lijn invented in 1970.
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Winning Words, 2014

Winning Words editions are based on Lijn’s Oracular Keys, a set of cards created in 1964 for the first staging of her Power Game performance, at the Royal College of Art
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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Lijn has used glass in her work, since the 1960’s. The Glass Wave Plates were originally made as playful experiments, while she was working on her Torn Heads series at the Hergiswil Glasi in Switzerland.
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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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First Words, 2000

Lijn’s plan is to collect 2000 first words: a word for each year since the birth of Christ. The ‘children’ in question can be grownups now as long as their first word is either remembered or documented.
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Her Mother’s Voice, 1996-98

In Her Mother’s Voice Lijn asked her mother to remember her life. She then transcribed the oral tapes, endeavouring to retain the unique character of her voice. Her Mother's Voice focuses on memory and an individual's history, which is also the history of the artist and on a broader scale that of the forced exoduses and resettlements of a generation of Russian and European Jews.
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Black Koan, 1990

The White Koan is a minimal meditative work, Black Koan, the etching was more like its shadow, an ominous and brooding image.
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A Tribute to Birgit Skiöld / Spinning, 1983

After the untimely death of the artist, ‘A Tribute to Birgit Skiold’ was produced to raise funds for the Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust. 118 artists from various countries contributed free of charge an edition of 25 prints in the 30 x 30 cm format, to create a portfolio of three volumes.
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Biting Through, 1976

These prints were based on innumerable drawings Lijn made in between 1974-6, in which she looked for and discovered dynamic patterns of flow.
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Quantum 1, 1974

The image is of the Trombay nuclear power station, which made headlines that year due to India exploding its first nuclear test bomb. Lijn had cut the photo from the newspaper about a year before the uproar, intrigued by the forms of the power station. It is a sequel to her set of Industrial Landscapes.
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