{"id":738,"name":"","email":"kaat.vannieuwenhuyse@muhka.be","language_id":1,"permalink":"liza-may-post","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1971-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Liza May","lastname":"Post","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Liza May Post","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Post, Liza May","stream_count_app":15,"gender":"female","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/041/632/large/Annoniem_Female.png?1536675320","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":1,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDutch photographer \u003cb\u003eLiza May Post\u003c/b\u003e (\u0026deg;1965) didn\u0026#39;t enrol in her first art course until she was 23, first at the Rietveld Academy and later at the Rijksacademie, both in Amsterdam. Her focus is on highly-stylised photography and film work, through which she attempts to capture the essence of human postures and movement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ePost devotes her time to exploring the coercion that people experience as a result of their surroundings along with their inability to resist this pressure. She takes the impotence of humans and distils it, as it were, into scenes that have been radically simplified; the characters in her work are anonymous \u0026#39;interim figures\u0026#39;, devoid of personal characteristics. They are positioned in such a way as to obscure the viewer\u0026#39;s gaze, with faces turned away or hidden beneath or behind garments. All the while they perform a strange, irrational choreography, contorted and frozen in their positions, alone and isolated, and unable to come into contact with each other. They appear to be lost, wandering and caught up in an autistic universe.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eHer film work contains no escalating build-up of tension or any dramatic developments, her intent is rather to elicit a certain atmosphere. She implies more than she says, and her works live and move and find their being in the logic of dreams rather than the rational. Liza May Post personally describes her own work as sublimated images from the stories that live in her head. She doesn\u0026#39;t really care whether the viewer is able to reconstruct those stories, it is \u0026ldquo;the point\u0026rdquo;, the essence and the atmosphere that she is seeking to convey, all condensed into a single image. The result is often a comical or ridiculous fusion of movements and situations; however, more often than not what prevails is a feeling of oppression and a bitter aftertaste.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eOn a scale that barely skims the surface, her works represent psychological disorders, psychological breaks and the mind\u0026#39;s collapse. Despair and madness are recurring elements in this oppressive oeuvre.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDe Nederlandse fotografe \u003cb\u003eLiza May Post\u003c/b\u003e (\u0026deg;1965) besluit pas op haar drie\u0026euml;ntwintigste\u0026nbsp;een kunstopleiding te volgen, eerst aan de Rietveld Academie en vervolgens aan de Rijksacademie, beide in Amsterdam. Ze legt zich toe op bijzonder gestileerde fotografie en videowerken waarin ze essenties van menselijke houdingen en bewegingen tracht vast te leggen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ePost stelt zich vragen bij de dwang die mensen ondervinden van hun omgeving en hun onvermogen om zich tegen die druk te verzetten. Ze distilleert de onmacht van de mens als het ware in extreem gereduceerde sc\u0026egrave;nes. De personages in haar werk zijn anonieme \u0026lsquo;interim-figuren\u0026rsquo;, zonder persoonlijke kenmerken. Ze keren hun rug naar de toeschouwer, draaien hun gezicht weg of verbergen zich achter of onder een kledingstuk. Tegelijk voeren ze een vreemde, irrationele choreografie uit. Haar personages zijn bevroren in een verwrongen positie, ze zijn solitair en hebben geen contact met elkaar. Ze lijken verloren rond te dwalen in een autistisch universum.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIn haar videowerken is er geen spanningsopbouw of dramatische ontwikkeling. De kunstenares wil eerder een sfeer oproepen. Ze suggereert meer dan dat ze vertelt. In haar werken functioneert de logica van de droom in plaats van de rationele logica. Liza May Post omschrijft haar werken zelf als gesublimeerde beelden uit een verhaal dat zij in haar hoofd heeft. Het gaat er haar niet om dat de toeschouwer dat verhaal zou kunnen reconstrueren. Zij wil \u0026ldquo;de pointe\u0026rdquo; en de sfeer van de hele film weergeven in \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n gecondenseerd beeld. Dit resulteert vaak in een komische of absurde versmelting van acties en situaties, maar meestal overheerst echter een beklemmend gevoel, een wrange nasmaak.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eHaar werken vertonen in een radicale kleinschaligheid psychische stoornissen, mentale haperingen en geestelijke ontreddering. Wanhoop en waanzin zijn weerkerende elementen in dit benauwend oeuvre.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"NL","place":"","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}