Liza May Post

(Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1965)

Visual artist, he focuses his films and photographic works on human behavior and its psychological dimensions. He examines attitudes, behaviors,... and encapsulates them in stylized visual compositions. Among his individual exhibitions, the Stedelijk Musem Bureau, Amsterdam (2000) stands out. He has participated, among others, in the following group exhibitions: Venice Biennale (2001); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2001); Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2000); Whitechapel Art Callery, London (2000); CCAC Institute, San Francisco (2000); National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1999); PS1, New York (1998); 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (1997); Wounds, Between Democracy & Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1997); Manifesta 1, throughout Rotterdam (1996); Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam (1996); Venice Biennale (1995).

His video installation Under (2001) was shown at MediaLab, offering a subtle and overwhelming psychological and social portrait of the growing fracture between the world of the marginalized and that of the socially integrated. The work presents a scenario where five characters seem trapped in the confines of an underground space. The absence of movement and communication fills the space with contained tensions, only contrasted by the distant reflection of the busy footsteps of passersby, which can be seen through a small skylight. Under presents structural marginalization as a social phenomenon that resonates in the interior of each individual. In fact, as the artist describes them, her characters are the projection of an inner state. With this, he alludes to that Jungian shadow that represents the sum of all the qualities that we try to repress and hide in our individual and collective unconscious.