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Five Walls Project Space // October 4th - 26th 2024
Lisa Stonham is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is driven by photography. Intrigued by light as both a subject and medium, her artworks focus on capturing light's ephemeral and momentary quality in the context of architectural space. Her work extends the boundaries of photography into physical space through experimentation with surface, volume, and reflection. Working through photo-media into sculpture and installation, she seeks to erase the distinctions between mediums, inviting hybridisations and slippages.
Underpinning these visual investigations is an interest in phenomenology and how the act of seeing involves the body in perceptual and psychological terms. Situated within the realm of the present-moment experience of sensory phenomena, she investigates the variability of perception and the physiological and interactive dynamics of the viewer.
Transparent and reflective materials draw the “viewer” into the uncertain depths of translucent photographs, creating a deliberate ambiguity or tension between how the photo object and its environment are perceived. The specular acrylic surfaces possess their own presence and the unique ability to constantly and definitively duplicate the present moment, operating in real-time. Details and fragments of images are layered and framed with a consideration of both planar and volumetric space that resist a single, stable viewpoint.
This interactive generation of physical and perceptual effects invites us to rethink our realities; questioning how we see ourselves in physical, architectural and internal, psychological spaces.