LISA-MARIE VLIETSTRA
Cluster Exhibitor | Photography & Print Fair 2022
Between Skin and Sky SCREEN 1.0 | 2021
Lisa Marie Vlietstra, is a visual artist using performance, photography, video and writing to materialize her ideas.
She completed her bachelor of fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and after that a two year masters degree on experimental filmmaking at the Netherlands Film Academy, also in Amsterdam.
Between Skin and Sky SCREEN 2.0 | 2021
Between Skin and Sky SCREEN 4.0 | 2021
Between Skin and Sky SKIN, 1.0 | 2021
During her education she traveled a lot and attended various artist residencies abroad. After finishing her master's, she moved to Andalusia, to a remote and small town close to Seville, to create a residency program with a focus on emerging artists collaborating with the local female community.
Through her work, she aspires (self)reflection on ̈showing ̈ one's self and all the ways in which women can choose to do so. To inspire women to collectively rethink the way in which they are conditioned to see & show themselves in modern (online) selfie culture.
Between Skin and Sky SKIN, 3.0 | 2021
Your Body is Normal not Sexual ALL ANGLES, 2.0 | 2021
Your Body is Normal not Sexual ALL ANGLES, 5.0 | 2021
Self and all Colors is an ongoing performative series of self-portraits in the rural environment of Andalusia.
Through this series Vlietstra questions the ̈makeable ̈ aspect of our self.
The ̈female is suffering from a constant disconnect between herself and the illusion of her online image. As we have,
never before, been so able to manipulate the visual representation of our ego.
This is a logical and human consequence of the ability we have nowadays to create this image of ourselves.
Between Skin and Sky SKY, 1.0 | 2021
It is not a skill of the photographer, painter or sculptor anymore and this perfect image isn’t only attainable for celebrities anymore.
Our ¨Ideal I¨ lies in our own heads, hands and our phones.
During corona quarantine everything became quiet and she shut down her social media to focus on what she thinks young women today are wedged away from:
What makes them beautiful, but what an online society conditions all women to not appreciate within themselves.
Through her work she experiences that a woman is not an extension of her body, her body is an extension of her.
She feels this very clearly when she poses, re-establishing a new balance between mind, body and nature.
Questioning in this day and age what it means to:
To be(come) a woman?
To inhabit a woman's body?
To inhabit the surface of female flesh and skin?