Eathy Liquids and Heavy Metal [Hypersleep]
Lisa Seebach
The works of sculptor Lisa Seebach (*1981) unfold a dystopian space that leads from the measurable world into an imaginary reality. The starting point is the artist's hand drawings, which she stages as steel structures and balances between materiality and dematerialisation with ceramic counterweights. Abstract and mysteriously distorted, the sculptures suggest objects such as gas cylinders or oil drums, which thus become aesthetic actors in a poetic and enigmatic staging. This creates a paradoxical scenery full of associative meta-narratives between post-apocalyptic science fiction and black utopia.
The art installation becomes a space for action in which the sculptures act as signs. The individual objects move between potential threat and a possible way out of dystopia. These can be interpreted individually on the basis of subjective experiences, but are firmly anchored in our shared present. Whether pandemics, climate crisis or the increase in conflicts and wars - the expectation of an apocalyptic world seems to be growing. But Seebach does not provide any direction, because her offers are fragile and fleeting. Any attempt to gain an overview fails and so it is left to the visitors themselves to develop their own fictional narrative.
Lisa Seebach (*1981 in Cologne, DE) currently lives and works in Potsdam. She studied at the Braunschweig University of Art and completed her diploma in Fine Arts with Prof Raimund Kummer, Prof Corinna Schnitt and Prof Candice Breitz in 2013. She then became a master student of Prof Thomas Rentmeister in 2014. Her work has already been honoured with several prestigious scholarships and prizes. These include a work grant and a project grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds as well as the New York Scholarship from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, USA.
