Yanjun Liu was born in 1996 in Chengdu, China. She is currently living and working in Beijing.
Liu’s interests reside in the primary experience of depression and how she sees the bedroom as a special space where dream, self-salvation, and loss co-exist. She works with images, installation, and sculpture.
My practice responds to my obsession with the bedroom as an essential space between the tangible and intangible world. Within the bedroom, there were dreams, depression, loss, unconsciousness, imaginary and loneliness. Everything is mixed thus and recreates a surreal sense of one’s existence. The act of entering and staying in one’s bedroom parts oneself from the outside. My work is endeavoring to grasp this subtle weirdness within all of this.
In my practice, I used a combination of digital photography and installation as my main method to finish image-making. Alongside this, I also applied the remaking of old objects, collaging of prints, projecting, and sculpting to shape and create the photographed scenes to reconstruct the surreal and absurd sense in the bedroom.
4 a.m.
He is in my dream again.
Sitting in the blackness,
that has a shape like water.
A delicate bunch of flowers
takes the place of his head, or not.
I just can't remember.
Upsidedown the ground is the dreamland.
We're living in the dream of it.
It is white
Pure whiteness
that could blind your eyes
That’s when you remember
that you have overdosed on something
Maybe your happy little pills?
The ones that share the same color
with the blankness or void now in your mind
-“Wait！
How do you know
that this exists in your mind?”
-“Never mind.”
The word “I” is deconstructed
In fact
Everything is deconstructed
Everything is meaningless
Everything blurs
Everything vanishes
Only your sensation and the whiteness left
At that moment
you can’t tell if you’re in another life
Or a dream that never ends
But you don’t even care
And the idea of the TREE pops up
Out of the blankness
Of the void
Of nothing
You want to see the tree bloom for you
For no one but you
And for you only
Heavily,
Angrily,
Uncontrollably,
And wildly
Bloom
Bloom
BOOM
The work would be presented in large-scale inkjet printing and exhibited with the furniture and objects in my bedroom in the gallery space. The remaking of a bedroom in an exhibition space will add another sense of dream and absurdity to the work.
