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| LIANE LANG |
Liane Lang employs a variety of inanimate objects and fabricated figures to
construct images and videos that exist between narrative fiction and still-life
composition. Set in spaces that appear contrived, and could be described as in
themselves sculptural, the photographs represent a highly controlled, single view
point on an installation. They extract from the elaborately inanimate, a moment of
animacy, a subtle shift between the observation of a figure as form and as active
agent. The figures in the work inhabit their environment like spectral presences,
simulating touch and sensation, engaged deeply in mock reflection, standing in for
the absent and the absent minded. They provide a vacancy for unselfconscious
voyeurism, for watching nobody through the key hole.
construct images and videos that exist between narrative fiction and still-life
composition. Set in spaces that appear contrived, and could be described as in
themselves sculptural, the photographs represent a highly controlled, single view
point on an installation. They extract from the elaborately inanimate, a moment of
animacy, a subtle shift between the observation of a figure as form and as active
agent. The figures in the work inhabit their environment like spectral presences,
simulating touch and sensation, engaged deeply in mock reflection, standing in for
the absent and the absent minded. They provide a vacancy for unselfconscious
voyeurism, for watching nobody through the key hole.
