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 in Tianmiao (1961 Shanxi) is a highly regarded installation artist. She has made a career transforming silk, threads and textiles into elaborate works of art. Influenced by Ann Hamilton, Barbara Kruger and Kiki Smith, Lin has taken household objects and wrapped them in white thread, or reconfigured them in a way that express her conflicting feelings about a women’s everyday chores. She also experiments with photography and video. In "Braiding" (1998), a 12-foot-tall, semi-transparent self-portrait is suspended in the air. White threads are randomly sewn across the canvas and trail from the back of the portrait onto the floor. They are metaphors for the multitude of tiny habits and traditions that constitute culture and that can constrain people. With her husband, the video artist Wang Gongxin, Lin created "Here? Or There?" (2002), an installation involving photos, video and eerie sculptures and bizarre costumes. |
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Snarl, Secateur, 1997, Video installation
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Growing, landscape-1, 2003, Installation
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Here? or There? No.14, Performance Photograph, 34×42cm (cooperate with Wang Gongxin)
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Here? or There? No.7, Performance Photograph, 34×42cm (cooperate with Wang Gongxin)
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Here? or There? No.4, Performance Photograph, 34×42cm (cooperate with Wang Gongxin)
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Here? or There? Installation (cooperate with Wang Gongxin)
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There is no fun of it (detail) , 1998
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[/b]Solo Exhibitions[/b]:
2008
Focus,Long March Space,Beijing
2004
Non Zero, Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
2002
Focus, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1995
Open Studio, No.12 Bao Fang hutong, Beijing, China |
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