TABLEAU VIVANT

Kunstplass, et visningssted for samtidskunst

Oslo 2018

Det fanns mycket att säga men det låg oartikulerat och skavde.

Det blev till stilla liv. Stilla ben. Stiliga ben.

Ögon fulla; av bananskal, tvivel.

Dadaisten drar en enhörning ur sin hatt.

Stenen är inte en sten, öppnar sig och stänger sig.

Små och stora landskap ställer upp sig och poserar.

Tableau Vivant by Lisa Stålspets is a constellation of images and objects, an asseblage that forms an open narrative and an investigation of existential questions. Some motifs are repeated serveral times in the exhibition; a stone, a piece of bark. At times in a very figurative manner but also in abstract forms where they can be associated with other things. Could it be skin, an old text fragment or part of a landscape? The eye sees what remains unsaid.  

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KONSTNÄRSHEMMET / A HOME FOR ARTISTS

RAM Galleri, Oslo 2016

LevArt, Levanger 2012-2016

Konstnärshemmet (A Home for Artists) takes as its starting point an artist novel about a nursing home for elderly artists.This novel serves as a framework or a narrative starting point for works in techniques such as paintings, sculptures, drawings and objects.

Along with producing texts, Stålspets works with painting, sculpture, drawing and objects. While the text is a realistic description of how a nursing home could be organised, the other works in the exhibition use a surreal and expressive pictorial idiom.

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ABANDON YOURSELF TO WHAT YOU SEE

Galleri Noplace, Oslo 2015.

The pieces of Lisa Stålspets' exhibition Abandon Yourself to What You See slip through our minds like the discarded relics of a forgotten and fragmented story. There is a shortage of solid signs here, we lack pegs on which to hang our cultured expertize; after all we are the chattering classes of the metropolis, not the silent beasts of the forest. It is not our world, why would we be conversant with it? And then we come across a solid instruction, a drawing in amongst these strange signifiers of another realm. It reads `Don't Interrupt! I'm Thinking`. At last, we think, a window into the mind of the artist, a clue, and a critical, cultured one at that – our language. On second thoughts, though, perhaps it is telling us to back off – it certainly seems rather aggressive.

Much art keeps us at a distance in this way. It is complete, the thoughts of the artist rounded, their vision or skill now dry and immutable, we must accept it for what it is. How then, might we abandon ourselves to what we see?

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SILENT FICTION

House of Foundation, Moss 2012.

There is a fiction that nature is silent. There is another that it roars. Silent Fiction, an exhibition of drawings, paintings and installation sculpture by Lisa Stålspets plays with the idea that nature is not so much mute as muted by us, and if it has a voice, it is voiced by us.

    Nature does have a roar, beside its creak and murmur and song, but this is its own sound, its own factuality that we rarely hear. Its `silence` is sound on another wavelength and what it might be saying, its narrative, is often beyond or outside of language.

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KONSTNÄRSHEMMET / A HOME FOR ARTISTS

An artist novel in three parts.

200 copies of each number, digital print.

Published by LevArt 2012-2016.

IN EACH SIGN SLEEPS A MONSTER

Artist book of posters.

Introduction by Marte Huke.

200 copies, digital print, 2014.