Liza works with photography, video, language, installation, and publications. The tension she once felt when watching live television, she now experiences when capturing moments of coincidence and small gestures.
Liza Wolters (1992) is presenting her video work It could be about … (until the conversation ends and we will continue to do something else) in the showcase. This diptych consists of footage filmed in Enschede combined with an associative text. The text was written in response to the images and her reflections during her stay in Enschede.
The work of Liza Wolters is a blend of her own memories, everyday situations that move her, and the associations they evoke. Moments of coincidence and fleeting gestures are captured — and at times directed. She works with photography, video, language, installation, and publications.
With EXPO5, our window exhibition space at Langestraat 56, we offer you a different way of experiencing art — one that, perhaps unintentionally, feels highly relevant today. The video art in EXPO5 can be viewed safely by anyone passing by on foot or by bike. In this way, you can experience art in an exhibition context without actually having to step inside an art institution.
Concordia is eager to show the broad scope of visual art, as well as its diversity in materials and approaches. Since June, our new ‘space’ EXPO5 has been presenting national video art 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This happens in relay form: each artist selects their successor.
Video art is particularly compelling because of the experimental nature of using the medium of film. Its approach differs from that of conventional cinema: there is often no plot, the time span is short, and the medium itself — with all its possibilities and limitations — frequently becomes the subject. A simple recording of an event can acquire a weight that extends far beyond its merely documentary character. This layered quality is highly captivating.
Today, anyone with a smartphone can make a video. Yet video artists, in a world saturated with moving images and media noise, continue to reveal to us the beauty of this phenomenon. They use a medium that is very close to us — think, for example, of the use of film in Instagram Stories and TikTok. Through this now everyday medium, these artists connect imagination with the visible and tangible world.