Lisa Taliano is New York based artist.

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Artist Statement

These paintings  are a physical means to grapple with a theoretical shift in the conception of materiality that requires us to rethink our understanding of what it is to have a body.  They are engendered by a way of thinking and feeling that recognizes embodied beings as enmeshed in the material world in such a way that we can’t separate ourselves from it. Bodies and places are continuous. The material world does not just surround us, it moves through us. Our bodies are not enclosed capsules, they are radically open to the wider environment.  The material world dynamically crosses through us, transforms us and is transformed by us. We are not bodies on the earth, we are in the earth. Our bodies are part of the living earth, and therefore the damage we do to the earth is damage we do to our bodies.

This viewpoint rejects the notion of bonded individuals and decenters the human subject. These paintings are a way of exploring new forms of subjectivity that go beyond the individual through affect and performativity. In making this work I ask myself - are there forms of subjectivity that go beyond thinking of myself as an individual?  Forms of subjectivity that open me up to include my surroundings, that allow me to identify with the larger body of the earth? 

2024