Liu Yin, a young artist who considers herself a rebel, once said she neither wanted to be controlled nor did serious affairs. For example, her installation work Rabbit Blowing Bubbles breaks down the audience’s perception of “cute rabbits” and unveils the metaphor of loneliness and rebellion behind.

The installation is inspired by a sketch discovered when Liu was sorting out her rough sketches in childhood. Taking neon lights as lines, she creates a lovely rabbit on the screen. Under the diffusion of modern decorative lights, the concrete edge of the cartoon pattern is blurred, generating a string of dreamlike bubbles connecting childhood memories. The rabbit, for a symbol of Liu Yin as a child, stands alone in the dark, confused and sad. The layers of bubbles are interwoven and mixed, which seem to be too fragile to stand the gentle touching, in fact tough and firm supported by neon materials. This is for recalling Liu Yin’s childhood and the dreamland she created for herself. Through the spatio-temporal tunnels connecting reality and fantasy, the artist fully conveys her ambivalence of sensitivity, curiosity, loneliness and determination.

(Edited by Li Hanning & Yang Zhige, 2021)