Visual Arts

Love Lost

Yan Liang

See it On Campus: Level 1

Visitor Info

A1054 - Love Lost Storage

Project 1

Love Lost, 2023

Multimedia Installation

Medium: Video, Photography, Roses, Ropes, Time

The installation is located in Emily Carr University’s 1st level, A1054 – Love Lost Storage

“Love Lost” is an emotional response to toxic love. It is trapped, and controlled, but when you decide to leave, you feel your dependence and intense reluctance. The attachment of the ropes represents the constraint in the relationship from external to internal, which is contradicted bonding. Time plays an inevitable role in the rose’s blossoming and decay representing love starting with beauty and sweetness, but changing negatively through time.

I believe marriage is the highest praise for love, thus, I chose to dress her as a bride. In the “Love is an unpredictable madness” video, I allow Avery to perform her free will, and the table becomes her playground. And after her performance, each still life she interacted with becomes symbolic. It enhances Vanita’s idea from historical still life painting transform into video. Everything on the screen those love, body, and still life is the transience of life.

The photograph series implies when everything is seemingly normal, one’s heart is still struggling. It is lingering in the atmosphere when love no longer serves its true purpose.