A living being, a building, and a city operate the same way
By Lobbin Liu
Booklet
7.5” x 11”
2022
Artist Statement: Lobbin Liu is a visual designer based in Brooklyn. Her research challenges design conventions by destructing and reconstructing situations and languages, redefining and misusing tools and technologies, and appropriating and recontextualizing senses and perceptions. She sets her sights on not only something conventionally appealing but also something that people usually ignore, avoid, or consider taboo. Intentionally or not, her works are rooted in the moments of discomfort within conventional beauty and allure. She seeks the poetic within the failures, dilemmas, confusions, clumsiness, and stupidities that she deals with every day.
Artist Bio: Lobbin works in visual systems, spatial graphics, performance, motions, interactives, and more. Her works try to create unconventional experiences by fusing senses and by merging disciplines. Her collaboration with scientists, engineers, and musicians reimagines and breaks the boundary of what role design plays in various contexts. Her works have been juried and awarded by Tokyo TDC, New York TDC, GDC, Design360, etc, and have been exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Beijing, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai, and more. She has been invited to talk and critique at multiple academic and artistic institutions in the United States like Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons, New York University, Boston University, etc., and in China like Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Graphic Design in China Committee, Shenzhen Technology University and more. Lobbin holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from RISD.
“This book dissects and reblends living organisms (us, humans and plants), the inanimate containers they inhabit (buildings), and the systems they are part of (the city). Through the juxtaposition of their structural, topological, and functional features, the book blurs the boundaries between them and offers an alternative perspective on the flesh body, concrete body, and compound body that we exist within. .”
-Lobbin, Liu, Brooklyn, NY.
A living being, a building, and a city operate the same way
By Lobbin Liu
Booklet
7.5” x 11”
2022
Artist Statement: Lobbin Liu is a visual designer based in Brooklyn. Her research challenges design conventions by destructing and reconstructing situations and languages, redefining and misusing tools and technologies, and appropriating and recontextualizing senses and perceptions. She sets her sights on not only something conventionally appealing but also something that people usually ignore, avoid, or consider taboo. Intentionally or not, her works are rooted in the moments of discomfort within conventional beauty and allure. She seeks the poetic within the failures, dilemmas, confusions, clumsiness, and stupidities that she deals with every day.
Artist Bio: Lobbin works in visual systems, spatial graphics, performance, motions, interactives, and more. Her works try to create unconventional experiences by fusing senses and by merging disciplines. Her collaboration with scientists, engineers, and musicians reimagines and breaks the boundary of what role design plays in various contexts. Her works have been juried and awarded by Tokyo TDC, New York TDC, GDC, Design360, etc, and have been exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Beijing, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai, and more. She has been invited to talk and critique at multiple academic and artistic institutions in the United States like Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons, New York University, Boston University, etc., and in China like Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Graphic Design in China Committee, Shenzhen Technology University and more. Lobbin holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from RISD.
“This book dissects and reblends living organisms (us, humans and plants), the inanimate containers they inhabit (buildings), and the systems they are part of (the city). Through the juxtaposition of their structural, topological, and functional features, the book blurs the boundaries between them and offers an alternative perspective on the flesh body, concrete body, and compound body that we exist within. .”
-Lobbin, Liu, Brooklyn, NY.
