Dissolve

The work “Dissolve” by Chinese artist Lyu Yue (Aluna) adopts abandoned masks as the primary resource material. It shows her wearing masks to visit museums and bookstores with stamps and written words on the masks like in the normal routine of life and the process of cutting into pieces the masks-composed cloth. The scattered pieces on the ground indicate the reduction and dissolution of the virus, and there would be no more masks needed. The video finally framed the stamp in her name and in correlation with the stamps at most of the public and cultural spaces. Chinese people traditionally use stamps to replace a signature, and a private stamp represents an individual. It represents that no one can escape the pandemic influence and everyone has the responsibility to fight against it.

Consumption

“The Chicken or the Egg” this casual dilemma interests me a lot, which also seems to be the same “who came first” situation between the demanding value and the consuming price. I rubbed and rolled the promotional pages from various supermarkets stating the price in the egg shaped balls and then flattened them. The work is to imply the relationship between consumption and desire.

Lyu Yue (Aluna), Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Designer, Artist and Curator, founder of Department of Fashion Design in China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)

Chief Deputy President of International Fashion Art Network (IFAN)

Director of Academic Board, China Fashion Association

Member of Costume Art Committee of China Artists Association

Executive Director of Chinese Fashion & Colour Association

Chairman of the Academic Committee of China Fashion Designers Association

Curator of Fashion Art International Exhibition

Aluna has attainments in both Fashion Design and Fashion Art and has achieved numerous awards, acted as a judge in multiple international fashion design competitions, and has been invited to cooperate with various international fashion organizations. Her works on Fashion Design and Fashion Art have been presented in several exhibitions at home and abroad, like France, Greece, Germany, UK, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Norway, Sweden, Italy and Bulgaria. 

Most of her recent works are in Fashion Art and collected by respected institutions and individuals.

Image, Video and Text Courtesy of the Artist.

Edited by Sue and Emily/CAFA ART INFO