To coincide with the launch of AnOther 13 – the magazine’s first fragrance in collaboration with Le Labo – AnOther commissioned four artists to reinterpret the hand-blended scent in their own style.
Taiwan-born, New York-based Wayne Liu is a self-taught photographer. Initially studying cinema and “dabbling” in history and science, he got bored of academia and found comfort in the dark room. “Photography gives me a reason to go out alone to face an ever-changing landscape,” he says, “which I deal with in the afterlife of the darkroom.”
Frequently shooting in black and white, his images resemble stills from a grainy film noir and often have a melancholic and sombre undertone. Liu’s interpretation for AnOther 13 is equally evocative, using photogram tracings of existing negative images and the bottle’s miasma to create an almost ghostly aesthetic. Here Liu poetically gives insight to his series:
“Using the vocabulary of photographic montage within a frame,
And despite the temptations of digital layering,
Under the ambience of an overcast daylight,
I construe (and limit myself to) a simple relation of
The fashion object, inscribed filmic image and a beaming light box.
Everything that is solid dissipates to the spectre of a bottle.”
Text by Lucia Davies
See how artists Alexandra Hughes, Chris Lee and Cédric Rivrain reinterpreted AnOther 13.
