The Vanishing Portraits, Kinmen

作品賞析

LIU Yun-Yi is a Taiwanese artist living in Germany, and her Vanishing Portraits series depict a collection of buildings in East German and Taiwanese cities that have either disappeared or were left forgotten as a result of changes in time or war. LIU Yun-Yi would first take dozens and even hundreds of photographs of the same building at different times and from different perspectives before reassembling them. The Vanishing Portraits, Kinmen depicts baroque architecture along old shopping boulevards that hint at the region’s once colonial background. The bustling merchant street is long gone and can only be recollected and reassembled using historical fragments and memories. LIU Yun-Yi’s photographs use a horizontally moving perspective, condensing historical moments into a fixed image of buildings that now stand like monuments, helping viewers open a new avenue to resurrect vanishing memories of our personal and historical past.