Liza Wolters Now is a different back then
26 Nov 2017 - 14 Jan 2018
In her first museum exhibition “Now Is A Different Back Then,” Liza Wolters (Landgraaf, 1992) shows a selection from her young oeuvre in relation to new work at SCHUNCK Museum.
In her first museum exhibition “Now Is A Different Back Then,” Liza Wolters (Landgraaf, 1992) shows a selection from her young oeuvre in relation to new work at SCHUNCK Museum.
In an intimate way, Wolters makes connections between everything she encounters and touches her. Like the dynamic between haphazardly placed shopping trolleys at the entrance of the supermarket. No thought has been given as to why they are there and yet a temporary and specific play has emerged in this living moment. It is the display of everyday beauty and logic in a way that makes you pause -even if only for a moment- at that which is and can be.
In determining her frame, she consciously filters the context of the environment. Her subjects are often captured in a frontal manner, balancing between the recognizable characteristics of a place or situation and its abstraction. For example, you can clearly see the characteristics of a lamp, building or person without being specifically about that building, lamp or person. Sometimes the visual aspects are more recognizable than other times.
When Wolters' sculptures are viewed together, it is striking that the forms of the objects or persons captured do not stand alone, but mostly in relation to each other. The solo exhibition therefore takes the form of a single installation in which the works enter into associative relationships with one another.
With “Now Is A Different Back Then,” Liza Wolters makes visible her fascination with the moment. She reflects on the experience of lived memory in relation to the now; the distance and closeness between arising and passing. Her relationship to Heerlen is also addressed in this: from her first friendships to the first introduction to art took place here. Heerlen has simultaneously become a place based on memories. Both the distance that is there now and the connection that was there are tangible and fascinating to her. A special accent therefore are the photographs that were made especially for this exhibition in the surroundings of Heerlen.
With the solo exhibition of visual artist Liza Wolters, SCHUNCK underlines the importance of making local talent visible.
About Liza Wolters
Liza Wolters' work reflects a curious, inquisitive gaze that scans the world around her and keeps it in motion. She looks at her surroundings with a registering and somewhat philosophical gaze. Thus, she seeks to show not only the striking, specific characteristics of her subjects, but also the “true archetype”-a kind of an idealized “archetype”-that lies behind them. It is an attempt to both see through things the Platonic idea of them and pay homage to that which is so specific to what she encounters just now. This double vision is palpable behind her often modest subjects, which can thus transform into meaningful worlds of their own.
Liza Wolters was born in Landgraaf in 1992 and moved to Breda when she was sixteen to study Fine Arts at art school AKV|St. Joost. Since graduating in 2014, she has been living and working in Rotterdam.
In 2016, Liza Wolters released the artist's book All of these images are the outcome of certain observations and she is currently working on a new publication to be published in early 2018.