Lisa Sartorio creates visual experiences that
disturb the relationship between the image and its pervasive presence, probing the
visibility of the real and what develops both as it emerges and disappears.
In L’écrit de l’histoire [Writing history], Sartorio takes a fresh look at the
concepts of territory and countryside – both of which provide a setting for
man’s actions – by drawing a parallel between the transformation of nature
by art and the transformation of nature by war. It is a work built on
photographs of weapons taken in History’s conflicts. The obsessive
reproduction of each photograph generates landscapes imbued with decay
and encroachment, and which develop within the bond that each module
creates with its own meme. Compositions which take shape from the inside;
living forms which spread out in exponential motion; vital and creative energy, but also a
sly penetration involving physical and mental contamination.
M14-EBR is an assault rifle used in the war in Afghanistan Iraq and Syria
Lisa Sartorio, Italian-born, graduated from the beaux-arts in Paris and attended the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques de la Ville de Paris. Trained in sculpture, her work then evolved to performance and visual arts. She received various prizes and scholarships including Aide à la création Ville de Paris , Bourse d’étude Corée du Sud (, Artiste en résidence Valence Art 3 , Winchester scholarship, Prix de la Fondation de l’Ensba Paris (Ensba Paris Foundation Award) and is currently in territorial residence subsidised by the Ministry of Culture with the Mac/Val at Vitry. Her personal exhibitions in museums and art centres include: Kunsthaus in Nuremberg, Museum of fine arts in Valencia, Maison d’art contemporain Chailloux , Palais de Chaillot, Musée d’Art Moderne/Palais de Tokyo (Museum of Modern Art/Palais de Tokyo), 19 CRAC de Montbéliard.
In 2010, she took part in the Nuit Blanche Parisienne and collaborated on an artistic project with Arte in 2011. Her work was also presented at the FIAC, Slick Art fair and Art Paris.
Her works are in many public and private collections:
Musée des Beaux-arts de Valence, Musée des Beaux-arts de Paris, Arthothèque de Lyon, BNF, Collection Jacques et Evelyne Deret (Paris), Collection Laurent Savard (Lausanne).
By 2015, she presented the monographic exhibition “Il était (X) fois” at the Galerie Binôme and took part in the collective exhibition “Créer c’est résister” at the Lyon library in the framework of Résonance, Lyon Biennale 2015, accompanied byMichel Poivert.In 2016, with her “Dessin d’un tirage” series, she is taking part in the drawing exhibition, presented at the Art Paris Art Fair and Galerie Binôme. She is presenting her work to the Maison Européenne de la Photographie during a conference programmed by Gens D’images, etc.
Lisa Sartorio is one of those artists who are interested in photography by giving a critical view of the massive presence of images and their absolute availability in today's visual culture. Internet, social networks and video surveillance play a role in producing new creative processes that are proof of a new transformation of images. Lisa Sartorio seizes this to create visual experiences that disrupt the relationship of an image with its ubiquitous appearance; investigating the visibility of what is real and what is built in both its appearance and disappearance.
