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
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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
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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…
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- Diana Lui
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