Lisa Goetze

Lisa Goetze (* 1987 in Ludwigsburg) lives and works since 2017 in Berlin.

It seems as if Lisa Goetze's hyperrealistic drawings of body parts develop a life of their own. Although it appears that the muscle shapes are merely scratched into the paper by clear hard lines, this process allows the formations to grow in an almost tumor-like fashion. The outcome is an organic aesthetic whose precise classification remains almost impossible. Yet, inherent in this prayer-mill-like repetition of lines is a humanistic interest: the devotion to and constant fixation on the human form in an effort to attain a sense of meaning and control through rendering it up close.
The neurotic ceremonial of drawing functions as a means and strategy of anchoring and locating herself and those around her in a shared physical reality. Only through the titles of the works and the juxtaposition of other media in the exhibition space does this assertion of availability resist. Symbolic stained glass meets photo collages of sports cars driven to scrap and playfully poses the question of shifting valence, its disappearance, and emerging symbolism. They reveal a constant effort to make sense of the world and our existence through the things that surround us and the way they relate to each other.
Lily Chianowicz