Liu Silin (aka Celine Liu) / I, Celine Liu
Who the hell is "Celine Liu"? “Celine Liu” crosses the boundaries of photography and digital art, moving freely between time and space, history, culture, politics, and identity.
A collection of works by Liu Silin aka Celine Liu, an artist based in Beijing, China.
Through herself, Liu Shirin has created a character that crosses history, culture, politics, and identity: Celine Liu. But "Celine Liu" isn't really anyone, the author says. Anyone can be Celine Liu, and everyone can be Celine Liu. In an age of image overload, Celine Liu uses herself as a medium to push the boundaries between reality and fiction, everyday and ritual, private and public, and between the individual and the world. We have made it possible to distribute and spread characters in the virtual world of the Internet, as well as "consume" them.
In "I'm everywhere", you can seamlessly insert yourself as "Celine Liu" into old celebrity photos, enter and leave major scenes in history, and watch them (Einstein, Picasso, Andy) in private. - Conversation with famous people including Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Princess Diana) and "falsify history".
"Appme" uses a selfie app to place herself within portrait templates depicting people of various ages and identities in the 20th century, creating a hybrid self-portrait series for "Céline Liu". Meanwhile, she adds her own template to the app, handing over Céline Liu to the audience in a collection of characters where the audience's performance merges with the image of "Celine Liu".
In the "Siren" series, she traveled through towns and villages looking for passers-by who would lip-sync with her to imitate the sound of a siren. In this series, they are people from different parts of the world and with different identities. In our daily lives, we don't often come into contact with people. At the same time, we cannot live without them in today's world. They are also important people.
While many artists emphasize the aspect of "art", Liu Shilin removes the attention that is devoted to "art", removes "elitist" and the limitations of art itself, and creates a bridge between art and the general public. trying to fill the gap. As the author put it when working on the "Siren" series, "everyone should have a right to speak and a sense of it."
Through self-constructed images, the artist revisits historical narratives and cultural memories, and explores the obsession of cultural icons in the mass media and the value of commodity culture. The traditional social practice of "image worship" has been constructed and shaped by the mass media and our digital lives. Liu Shirin's artistic practice explores and reinterprets the traditional social convention of 'image worship'.
Publisher: La Maison de Z
Publication year: 2021
Number of pages pages: 60("I'm everywhere," )
Size size: 260x130mm
Format format: Multi-set of a booklet in 5-colour printing, a flip book, and a sound devise box
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State condition: New
Limited edition of 500 copies