Diana Lui

works

  • Rooted
  • Medusas
  • Pur ~ Sang
  • Rivière Infinie
  • Le Voile Essentiel
  • Intimate Portraits 1
  • Intimate Portraits 2
  • Cities of the Immortals

films

  • Four Play
  • An Island for Monkeys

about

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  • Bio
  • Press Reviews
  • Bibliography

workshops

  • Medusa’s Eye
  • l’Art de Voir
  • Rencontres d’Arles

Art as Therapy

  • Introduction
  • DIM Berlin
  • Merimetsan Alchemy 1
  • Merimetsan Alchemy 2
  • Miss Homeless
  • School of Visual Arts

contact

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::Cities of the Immortals::

(work in progress)

~ Medium : photography
~ Exhibitions :
   - Guangdong Museum of Art, China (2007)
~ Curators : Jean Loh

eng:

“…This eternal snowscape gliding by was mythical and impossible, but there it was in front of me. In this space of nothingness, cities appeared at night like diamonds imbedded inside velvet blue mountains, factories sprawled along a snow desert stood like castles from another time, water towers or water castles(chateau d’eau(1)) as I prefer to call them, stood proud and solitary like watch towers, even when I could not discern any other village or life, there was somewhere in this infinite land people living their individual existence. These lands with names of cities written in languages unknown to me: Perm-Ekaterinaburg-Novosibirsk-Irkutsk-Baikal-UlanUday-Ulaanbaatar-Erlian-Huhehot...all have been shaped, inhabited, deserted and scarred by man…”

- Diana Lui

(1) chateau d’eau - water tower in French.

fr:

«…Paysages sans fin, mythiques et improbables, cependant bien réels. Dans ces espaces vacants, les cités émergeaient de la nuit telles des diamants incrustés dans les montagnes bleu-velours ; les usines s’égrenaient le long d’un désert de neige telles des châteaux d’une époque révolue ; les châteaux d’eau se dressaient fiers et solitaires telles des tours de guet. Des bâtiments à l’abandon se succédaient avec une régularité inquiétante, gisant parfois, avec la splendeur d’une cathédrale, comme des dinosaures éventrés… »

- Diana Lui
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