Liane Lang, Edge of Forever, 2023 (framed)
Digital print on agate stone, 10 x 18cm (frame size: 20 x 25cm)
Germany-born artist Liane Lang’s practice explores iconoclasm and legacy. Working across film, performance, printmaking and sculpture, she uses mannequins, models and photographic imagery of the body in her work to draw attention to historical representations of the female, and humankind’s relationship with the past.
In Liane’s recent series ‘Touch Stone’, the artist screen-printed images of statues onto objects from the natural world including quarried stone, slivers of crystal, and tree trunk slices. These works have an air of the mystical; rich in narrative and memory, they reference the power and fragility of nature and our increasingly destructive relationship with it.
This unique work, presented in a lightbox frame, continues the artist’s exploration of tens of millions of years old crystals as - in her words - ‘a portal to deep time’. Here, she has digitally printed a pair of hands - which appear to be hanging on to the edge of a rock - onto agate stone. They suggest, she says ‘a climber enjoying a day out, or a metaphor for the delicate hold humans have on their natural environment, the precipice of oblivion hovering below.’ This work’s frame requires a mains electricity supply.
Liane studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London followed by an MFA at the Royal Academy Schools, London, where she graduated in 2006. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at the Musée de Beaux Arts Calais, PS1, New York and Kunstverein Heidelberg. She has won several prizes including the Photofusion Award, the Tooth Travel Award at Goldsmiths College and the Cheneviere Prize at the Royal Academy Schools. 2018 saw a solo show in London at James Freeman Gallery and her work was included in the group exhibition ‘From Life’ at the Royal Academy of Arts. Her work is held in numerous notable public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and MOMA, New York. She lives and works in east London.
Digital print on agate stone, 10 x 18cm (frame size: 20 x 25cm)
Germany-born artist Liane Lang’s practice explores iconoclasm and legacy. Working across film, performance, printmaking and sculpture, she uses mannequins, models and photographic imagery of the body in her work to draw attention to historical representations of the female, and humankind’s relationship with the past.
In Liane’s recent series ‘Touch Stone’, the artist screen-printed images of statues onto objects from the natural world including quarried stone, slivers of crystal, and tree trunk slices. These works have an air of the mystical; rich in narrative and memory, they reference the power and fragility of nature and our increasingly destructive relationship with it.
This unique work, presented in a lightbox frame, continues the artist’s exploration of tens of millions of years old crystals as - in her words - ‘a portal to deep time’. Here, she has digitally printed a pair of hands - which appear to be hanging on to the edge of a rock - onto agate stone. They suggest, she says ‘a climber enjoying a day out, or a metaphor for the delicate hold humans have on their natural environment, the precipice of oblivion hovering below.’ This work’s frame requires a mains electricity supply.
Liane studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London followed by an MFA at the Royal Academy Schools, London, where she graduated in 2006. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at the Musée de Beaux Arts Calais, PS1, New York and Kunstverein Heidelberg. She has won several prizes including the Photofusion Award, the Tooth Travel Award at Goldsmiths College and the Cheneviere Prize at the Royal Academy Schools. 2018 saw a solo show in London at James Freeman Gallery and her work was included in the group exhibition ‘From Life’ at the Royal Academy of Arts. Her work is held in numerous notable public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and MOMA, New York. She lives and works in east London.
Digital print on agate stone, 10 x 18cm (frame size: 20 x 25cm)
Germany-born artist Liane Lang’s practice explores iconoclasm and legacy. Working across film, performance, printmaking and sculpture, she uses mannequins, models and photographic imagery of the body in her work to draw attention to historical representations of the female, and humankind’s relationship with the past.
In Liane’s recent series ‘Touch Stone’, the artist screen-printed images of statues onto objects from the natural world including quarried stone, slivers of crystal, and tree trunk slices. These works have an air of the mystical; rich in narrative and memory, they reference the power and fragility of nature and our increasingly destructive relationship with it.
This unique work, presented in a lightbox frame, continues the artist’s exploration of tens of millions of years old crystals as - in her words - ‘a portal to deep time’. Here, she has digitally printed a pair of hands - which appear to be hanging on to the edge of a rock - onto agate stone. They suggest, she says ‘a climber enjoying a day out, or a metaphor for the delicate hold humans have on their natural environment, the precipice of oblivion hovering below.’ This work’s frame requires a mains electricity supply.
Liane studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London followed by an MFA at the Royal Academy Schools, London, where she graduated in 2006. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at the Musée de Beaux Arts Calais, PS1, New York and Kunstverein Heidelberg. She has won several prizes including the Photofusion Award, the Tooth Travel Award at Goldsmiths College and the Cheneviere Prize at the Royal Academy Schools. 2018 saw a solo show in London at James Freeman Gallery and her work was included in the group exhibition ‘From Life’ at the Royal Academy of Arts. Her work is held in numerous notable public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and MOMA, New York. She lives and works in east London.
