Silin Liu - Vasli Souza

Biography

Silin Liu (B. 1990) Lives and works in Beijing

Silin Liu, a.k.a. Céline Liu, is a conceptual artist crossing the boundaries of photography and digital art, while also exploring installation and performance.

Silin received her B.A. in Photography from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in 2012, followed by an M.A. from Tsinghua University, Beijing.

In 2015, Liu was shortlisted for the reGeneration3 exhibition and publication project of Musée de l‘Elysée in Switzerland, the same year she was shortlisted to be part of the TOP20 Chinese Pioneering Contemporary Photograpers. In 2016 her series “I’m Everywhere” was awarded the Discovery Award at “Jimei x Arles International Photography Season” and was later presented at Rencontres d’Arles, 2017.
In 2018 Silin was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award.

Works

SIREN: I search for people to join me in imitating sirens with our voices everywhere. They come from diverse backgrounds and assume different roles in society—individuals I would unlikely encounter in my daily life, yet whose existence remains indispensable to the reality I inhabit. I choose the siren—a sound universally recognized across regions and cultures—as our medium of performance, attempting to strike a chord of collective resonance.

Exhibitions