Arise Alive, a look back at the 60-year career of London-based American artist Liliane Lijn, is Tate St Ives big show for 2025, running until 2nd November.
Conjunction of Opposites: Woman of War and Lady of the Wild Things, 1986. Courtesy of the artist and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus. © Liliane Lijn / DACS 2024. Photograph: Thierry Bal
In the early 1960s, Lijn’s kinetic sculptures placed her at the forefront of artists exploring new ways of using technology to “see the world in terms of light and energy”. Since then, her work has continued to blaze a trail while defying categorisation.
Fascinated by the idea of visualising the invisible, Lijn draws from Surrealist ideas, ancient mythologies, and feminist, scientific, and linguistic thought. Equally important to her experimentation are the materials she uses — such as plastics, prisms, feather dusters, and copper wire.
Arise Alive surveys Lijn’s career from the late 1950s to today, spanning installation, sculpture, painting, and moving image, and including her ongoing exploration and creation of new feminine forms.
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