The Vanishing Portraits, Krukenbergstreet 10a-14a, Halle, Germany

作品賞析

LIU Yun-Yi is a Taiwanese artist who lives abroad in Germany. Her photography, “The Vanishing Portraits” series record the images of vanishing buildings or buildings that have been gradually forgotten by people in cities of East Germany or Taiwan due to changes in time or wars. She takes large number of photos on the same building through different time and scenes, followed by re-collage tens or hundreds of photos together. The work, “The Vanishing Portraits, Krukenbergstreet 10a-14a, Halle, Germany,” shows the empty house left with black holes due to the broken windows, doors with forced sealing by bricks, and the collapsed appearances without souls. The horizontal image shows a concentrated, frozen and stagnated time and space that were previously passed by. The artist opens the entrance to personal and historical stream through traveling between these buildings, as if recalling our passed memories.