Liu Silin - I, Celine Liu

INTRODUCTION
She, Liu Silin creates through herself a character, Celine Liu, who traverses history, culture, politics, and identity, yet says that Celine Liu is in fact nobody: Celine Liu can be anyone, while anyone can be Celine Liu. In this era of image overload, Celine Liu employs herself as a medium to push the boundaries between the real and the fictional, the mundane and the ritual, the private and the public, the individual and the universal, allowing the character of Celine Liu to be circulated and fermented in the virtual world of the Internet, as well as to be "consumed."
 
Thus, in "I'm everywhere," she "falsifies history" by seamlessly inserting herself as Celine Liu into old photographs of celebrities, traveling in and out of major historical scenes, or chatting and laughing with them in private.
 
In " Appme, " she creates a series of hybrid self-portraits of Celine Liu by using a selfie app to place herself in a template of portraits, depicting people from various decades and identities of the 20th century. Meanwhile, she adds her own templates to the app, handing over Celine Liu to the audience in the pool of characters where the performance of the audience merges with Celine Liu's image.
 
In the "Siren" series, she travels through cities and villages looking for passersby who can lip-synch and imitate the sound of sirens with her. These people come from different corners of the world with different identities. They are not only people we rarely come into contact with in our everyday life, but also characters we cannot live without in reality.
 
While many artists choose to emphasize the aspect of "art," she, Liu Silin, instead, takes away the attention spent on “art,” trying to dissolve the "elitism" and the limits of art itself, in an effort to close the gap between art and the general public. As she said when working on the "Siren" series, "Everyone should have the right to speak up and the awareness to do so.”
 
Through her self-constructed images, Liu Silin re-examines historical narratives and cultural memories, and reflects on the obsession with cultural icons and the value of commodity culture in the mass media environment. In her artistic practice, Liu Silin investigates and reinterprets the traditional social conventions of "image worship"; conventions that are constructed and shaped precisely by the mass media environment and our digital life.
 
ABOUT ARTIST
 
Liu Silin (aka Celine Liu), born in 1990 in Shenyang, lives and works in Beijing. She habitually crosses the boundaries of photography and digital art, while also exploring installation and performance. In her series “I’m everywhere” started in 2012, she challenges our global cultural landscape by literally integrating herself in iconic portraits in the history of photography.
 
Moving beyond time and space, Liu’s work was awarded the “Discovery Award” at “Jimei x Arles International Photography Season 2016” and on show at “Rencontres d’Arles” in France in 2017. In 2015, she was selected as part of the “reGeneration3” program at Musée de l‘Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland.
 
SPECIFICATIONS
Photographs and text: Liu Silin/ aka Celine Liu
Design: Zhen SHI, Yinhe Cheng
ISBN : 978-2-9564071-6-4
Publication date: October 2021
BOOK INFO Limited edition of 500 copies
Multi-set of a booklet in 5-colour printing, a flip book, and a sound devise box, Packed in a Pantone fluorescent printed takeaway bag
13 x 26 x 3 cm
 
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INTRODUCTION
她，刘思麟，通过自己创造了一个角色，Celine Liu，她穿越历史、文化、政治和身份，却说Celine Liu实际上是无名之辈：Celine Liu可以是任何人，而任何人也可以成为Celine Liu。在这个图像过载的时代，Celine Liu将自己作为媒介，推动现实与虚构、平凡与仪式、私人与公共、个体与普遍之间的界限，使Celine Liu的角色在互联网虚拟世界中流传和发酵，同时被“消费”。
 
因此，在“我无处不在”中，她通过将自己无缝地插入到名人的旧照片中，作为Celine Liu，穿梭于重要的历史场景之间，或者在私下与他们聊天、笑闹。
 
在“Appme”中，她通过使用自拍应用程序，将自己置于各种世纪和身份的人物肖像模板中，创作了一系列Celine Liu的混合自拍作品。同时，她还向应用程序添加了自己的模板，将Celine Liu交给观众，在观众的表演与Celine Liu的形象融合的角色池中。
 
在“塞壬”系列中，她穿越城市和乡村，寻找可以与她一起模仿警报声的路人。这些人来自世界各地，拥有不同的身份。他们不仅是我们在日常生活中很少接触到的人，而且是我们在现实中无法缺少的角色。
 
虽然许多艺术家选择强调“艺术”的方面，但她，刘思麟，却将注意力从“艺术”上撤回，试图消解“精英主义”和艺术本身的限制，努力拉近艺术与普通大众之间的差距。当她在“塞壬”系列上工作时，她说：“每个人都应该有发言的权利和意识。”
 
通过她自己构建的图像，刘思麟重新审视历史叙事和文化记忆，反思文化偶像的痴迷和大众传媒环境中商品文化的价值。在她的艺术实践中，刘思麟调查并重新解释了“图像崇拜”的传统社会规范；这些规范正是由大众传媒环境和我们的数字生活精确构建和塑造的。
 
关于艺术家
刘思麟（艺名Celine Liu），1990年出生于沈阳，现居北京，工作生活。她习惯于跨越摄影和数字艺术的界限，同时也探索装置和表演。在她从2012年开始的系列作品“I’m everywhere”中，她挑战了我们全球文化景观，直接将自己融入到摄影历史中的标志性肖像中。
 
超越时空，刘思麟的作品于2016年获得了“集美x阿尔勒国际摄影季”的“发现奖”，并于2017年在法国的“阿尔勒相遇”展出。2015年，她被选为位于瑞士洛桑的“Elysée博物馆”的“reGeneration3”项目的一部分。
 
规格
摄影和文本：刘思麟/艺名Celine Liu
设计：施震，程音和
ISBN：978-2-9564071-6-4
出版日期：2021年10月
书籍信息：限量版500册，一本五色印刷小册子、一个翻页书和一个声音设备盒，打包在一个荧光印刷的Pantone外卖袋中
尺寸：13 x 26 x 3厘米
 
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