Cell 03 /Another Planet series/original photogram 6 Editions Photograph

Liu Yang’s photogram works DREAM TRILOGY are including DREAM, DREAM INCEPTION and ANOTHER PLANET. All the works were created in dark room, she used photographic paper as the materials, but images were not taken by camera, they are photogram. The productions of the images were to place the objects between photographic paper and lights, then exposure. Details of the objects were lost, some were deformed, some were moved. Outline and color of the objects are well designed by self-modified lights. Some of the creations adopted multi-exposure by different lights, just like to use lights to draw on the photo paper. In ANOTHER PLANET, she poured transparent aqua on glass or acrylic plate, let them move and mix naturally to create patterns, and then put objects on it. The preparation of creation usually took some days, and then she eventually realized it in a big dark room. ANOTHER PLANET ideas were connected with Dream Inception that was a process that Liu Yang took three months to insert cosmic information into her real dream. It aroused her fascination with cosmic themes, imagination of the future, and concern of human fate. When we look at our world from the perspective of the universe, when we see the images that James Webb send back about the deep space billions of light years away, we understand how tiny we are so does the human civilization. ANOTHER PLANET is a bold imagination of what another planet and alien lives could be in artist’s point of view, also in viewer’s imagination when they participate, and what humanity would be after becoming multi-planetary species.