​LIHONG LIU is an artist and a practice-based PhD candidate in Fine Art in Chelsea College of Arts (UAL). Lihong’s work spans various media, including drawings, sculptures and installations. Her earlier sculptures explored the relationship between memory and perception of daily objects via the use of traces of the absent and present, while her recent work examines the use of déjà vu as an artistic strategy of ‘affect,’ particularly in connection to the spatial and temporal displacement associated with the unheimlich (i.e. uncanny/un-homely). Lihong’s practice, as well as its theoretical contextualisation, addresses concepts prevalent in the philosophical and psychological literature about the relationship between déjà vu and the unheimlich. Lihong’s practice is specifically focused on the displacement that occurs when one is away from one’s home. Her recent works based on Sigmund Freud’s (1919) and Nicholas Royle’s (2003) understanding of the unheimlich which can be seen as a peculiar combination of feeling familiar yet unfamiliar to throw light on the process of examining the continuity of home.