DESCRIPTION

Tate St Ives presents Arise Alive, a major exhibition of the work of Liliane Lijn. Surveying Lijn’s career over five decades, this expansive survey features key works by an artist whose wide-ranging practice includes sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, collage, video and performance. Lijn – one of the first women artists to create kinetic works – explores the intersection of art, poetry and science, combining surrealism, mythology, philosophy, scientific innovation and feminism. Organised by Haus der Kunst in Munich and mumok in Vienna, in collaboration with Tate St Ives, Arise Alive is the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date.

The exhibition explores three key themes that span Lijn’s career: kinetic art – initially through motorisation and optical effects; light and energy – giving visible form to immaterial and invisible forces; and feminism and the body – challenging dominant ideas of the feminine in art and technology.