Lili Dujourie

Sunday Afternoon in Berlin is part of a series of marble works created by Lili Dujourie between the late 1980s and early 1990s. These marble pieces are often positioned at the junction between the wall and the floor. The artist’s visual vocabulary is reminiscent of that of minimalism. Her focus is on the immediate qualities of her installations, which lie halfway between painting and sculpture: simple, geometric forms, understated colours, and a noble material. These objects are experienced through the body and interact with the space. However, unlike minimalism, they evoke a wholly subjective sensibility: that of the artist and her memory. Sunday Afternoon in Berlin evokes the poetic memory of a lived moment, a fleeting instant: light streams through a window to cast its shadow on the floor. The installation evokes Lili Dujourie’s taste for narrative and theatricality – concepts the artist also explored in the 1980s through large drapes of velvet.

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