Renáta Liszi

Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary

Artist statement

Renata Liszi’s art responds to her pursuit of the spiritual within visual art. For the past two years she has been concerned with the coalescing of light beams, vibrations and secret geometrical signs. She works with analogue and digital cameras, camera-less techniques and mixed-media. Liszi’s interests in spirituality and its existence in contemporary photography led her to research why the metaphysical can be important in our culture and everyday life. 'To be a good photographer you have to be a scientist as well,' says Sugimoto, who likens his Lightning Fields to early photographic experiments, as well as a cosmic events, such as ’the first meteorite hitting the Earth'. Yet science does not occlude religion. 'People still need another way to understand the world besides logic’, comments Sugimoto, ’and we're turning to art and spirituality to help us understand our environment and the world.' Hiroshi Sugimoto, Book: Art + Religion in the 21th century pg.81. Seeking the essence, the ontology, the origin of not every day perception, looking beyond the unseen, towards the magical, are daily routine for Liszi, especially because spirituality does not have a 'specific meaning in academic analysis.' (Lipsey, 1988, pg. 6-7) Experiencing different things by practicing yoga or meditation without any religious practice is one way to make connections with our pure nature in this modern age, where people pay attention to this ’new’ materialistic world after the 20th century. There...

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