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Xingyu Liu: How I Became a Candle

£150.00

How I Became a Candle is a set of photographic works that explore metamorphosis, depression and death with a humorous angle.

A candle represents ritual, loss, reflection and memories. By turning my face into a lit candle, I imagine myself dead, with my black and white portrait and the candle lit for me merging into a stream of smoke, and when the candle is spent, my memory is gone.

In Buddhism, death is merely a contributing step of the cycle of life that's never-ending, and by imagining myself dead, I felt renewed at the end.

Individual print size 20x30cm

Set of 3 prints

Limited edition of 2

Printed on Hahnemühle Sustainable Photo Satin

Please email info@imageprintcentre.co.uk for specific requests.

How I Became a Candle is a set of photographic works that explore metamorphosis, depression and death with a humorous angle.

A candle represents ritual, loss, reflection and memories. By turning my face into a lit candle, I imagine myself dead, with my black and white portrait and the candle lit for me merging into a stream of smoke, and when the candle is spent, my memory is gone.

In Buddhism, death is merely a contributing step of the cycle of life that's never-ending, and by imagining myself dead, I felt renewed at the end.

Individual print size 20x30cm

Set of 3 prints

Limited edition of 2

Printed on Hahnemühle Sustainable Photo Satin

Please email info@imageprintcentre.co.uk for specific requests.

About the artist

Xingyu Liu is a multidisciplinary artist working across video art, theatre production, and photography. Her practice explores interpersonal relationships, identity, and the complex sense of belonging or not belonging, to a place or country. She often approaches these themes through a restrained, documentary style.

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