I understand my work as visual poems. It often revolves around cyclical movements of nature, such as the rhythm of day and night or ebb and flow. I work with drawing, photography, poetry, video, objects, and installation.
Night and sleep are central themes in my work. Too little sleep feels like I am wearing thinner and more sensitive skin. I explore states of experience like this in the medium of drawing. This more permeable boundary between body and world shows up as cautious growths.
The question of what kind of surface the night has always leads me again and again to formulate a work. I develop fictional gestures and make them, or only hints of them, visible. One such gesture is the idea that I grab a handful of night and take it with me into the next day, where it turns into stone.
I often work in series repeating the same gesture, though the resulting objects are never the same. Day follows day without the next one ever reproducing the previous one. I keep these series without beginning or end.
I am interested in how human repetitive movements interact with the cyclical movements of nature. In my video work „Versäumung“ I try to sew the ocean to the land. Here I juxtapose the repetitive motion of sewing hands with the wave motions of the sea.
In addition to the cyclical movements, linear movement through the landscape like traveling, is relevant to my work. Through the mental scanning of a foreign landscape and its changes poetry emerges in my process. Here, I work with the combination of photography and poetry to bring the intertwining of language and landscape into my work. Where photography remains silent, words speak and where language is unable to communicate, the portrayed landscapes tell. Black and white photographs show visual affinities between places that are geographically distant. Through travel, a subjective geography emerges.
With my work I want to dislocate vicinity and distance, palpate movements and carry a little night into the daylight.
Zarte Phänomene – Lisa Bergmann about the exhibition Delicate Entities
Die Straße – artist portrait – Kunstportal Baden-Württemberg
Meisterschülerportfolio – Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe