The Vanishing Portraits

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 II is a photograph of an extremely dilapidated building with well-weathered walls situated in East Germany. The outward appearance shows that the building has been long abandoned, and the modern building positioned close to it highlights the length of the history behind the uninhabited construct. Frontal photographs of memorial-like buildings taken by LIU Yun-Yi serve to open a gateway to personal and historical eternity, magically resurrecting a fading memory.