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Life rented from STARFLY
2014
BY
LIU Yu
Life rented from STARFLY
2014
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The project was inspired by a normal moment in my daily life. One day when I went to rent books I saw a middle-aged women renting many romances at once. It’s a really normal situation without anything special, but somehow I could sense the undercurrent of desire in her behavior. I think reading romance is a projection of reader to the books. The plots in the fiction fulfilled the desire for absent emotional experiences. For a middle-aged housewife, the projection of desire means more complicated emotions. It has become an experience that never really happened before. Through reading the stories in those romances, she’s actually realizing the desire in her daily life.

I found a woman who’s exactly the romance reader I’ve mentioned about. I interviewed her, and understood her identity, personality, life style. In the end, I wrote a romance through her identity, life background, and her desired lover in relationships. I built a structure around HER to explain that every reader of romance is the person who always long for love. Through the perspective of readers, I created a special connection. The books turned readers into heroin in the story and outstood the fact that readers always want to be “Others”, so as to fulfill the desire of absent experience. The desire has created a ghost substitute, a character, a world, but it’s not a role to play. I created a fictional time and space to compensate the differences between real life and imaginations, but it eventually showed the cruel reality accidentally.

The book was finished during my artist residence at Eslite bookstore, and was launched in the bookshops. So the book didn't return to the exhibition venue, but went directly to the book market. Audiences will read the book in a normal situation, instead of going to an exhibition to read a book. The possible audiences of the book, is actually the reader of romance, and the art lovers who read it as an art piece. For the potential readers of romance, they might find themselves in the book. The one who’ve tried to find love from romance, who longed for the love in books, eventually became the character in romance, and their desire was finally fulfilled in the book.

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11 artworks / 34 exhibition
Installation Art
Born in Taiwan, works and lived in Taipei. She is an artist and engaged in many art-related productions and social activities. She is sentimental, sensetive, intuitional and onwer of sharply accurate personal phrases like other image generation yo ...
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