Yanjun Liu

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About

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.


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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.


Conversation

Grandpa's Suit and My Shoes
Grandpa's Suit and My Shoes
Bedroom Conversation
Bedroom Conversation

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.

Medium: Digital C-Type

Size: 1m x 1.5m

Bedroom Rhapsody

Every Time You Dream Your Bed Blooms for You
Every Time You Dream Your Bed Blooms for You
It Rains for Me
It Rains for Me
Certainty
Certainty
Uncertainty
Uncertainty
Untitled
Untitled
My Toothpaste is Floating
My Toothpaste is Floating

Upsidedown the ground is the dreamland.

We're living in the dream of it.

Medium: Digital C-Typing

Size: 1m x 1.5m

Evening Blossom

Evening Blossom I
Evening Blossom I
Evening Blossom II
Evening Blossom II
Deja Vu I
Deja Vu I
Deja Vu II
Deja Vu II
To Plant a Tree in Your Bedroom
To Plant a Tree in Your Bedroom

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

Medium: Digital C-Type

Illustration of Exhibition

Illustration of Exhibition
Illustration of Exhibition

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.

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