Video: Silk human tissue. Creativity Lisa Kellener
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In January, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts hosted an exhibition of the interesting sculptor Lisa Kellner, who uses unconventional materials for her works - silk, thread, pins and the like. With the help of these things, she creates memorable, vivid works, putting more meaning in each of them than it might seem at first glance.
The desire to become an artist in the broadest sense of the word came to Lisa as a child, when she lived in Australia. Gluing two pieces of plywood together and tearing them apart, she looked with amazement and admiration at the pictures that the glue painted on the piece of wood. Her works today are somewhat reminiscent of those first "creative" acts. Life in many countries and acquaintance with new cultures contributed to the development of her gift in her, giving her a unique combination of the sentimentality of "nomadic" people, for whom the concept of "home" is blurred, with a rich visual experience.
"All my work starts with some small defects on the surface of things around me, be it oil stains, scratches or dents. I am always looking for some kind of" proof of imperfection "of objects, which I subsequently bring to a critical mass. the comfort of things such as silk, needles and embroidery, I create new forms of contemporary art."
In her “silk” works, Lisa explores the nature of diseases and cellular systems in relation to human patterns of behavior. Its goal is to create sculptural paintings that go beyond the "canvas". She does not paint her work, preferring a lengthy process of pigmenting, adding ink, bleach and sometimes compost until the paint effect is achieved. As a result, the silk becomes similar to the layer of the epidermis, translucent, but at the same time bright, taking the form of objects (human organs and cellular structures), on which Lisa stretches the resulting material. After that, she removes the support from under them, allowing them to "draw" their own appearance.
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