Liesl Raff
Short Liaisons (Tripod), 2022-2023

Latex, metal, rope, pigment, talcum.
300 x 90 x 90 cm.
Courtesy of Galerie Presenhuber.

With Liaison, sculptor Liesl Raff transforms the exhibition space into a transitory experiential space marked by different atmospheres. For years, the artist has experimented with industrial and natural materials, transforming them into objects with an emotional life of their own. Latex, as a particularly versatile and tactile material, is one of her favorite work materials. Raff applies it over various  structures like a second skin. In combination with bamboo tubes, steel rods and ropes, she creates animistic-looking sculptures. Niches, shelters and protective zones evoke a feeling of retreat and security.

“There is no dominant order in Liesl Raff’s Liaisons. These long latex sculptures, shaped like soft noodles more than anything else, bump and rub against each other without fighting to be top dog. They are cast and infused with different colors, then strung, draped, or wrapped around a frame. From afar they look hard, like metal. Up close they are playful and have a rubbery, skin-like texture. Their natural state seems to be one of shapeshifting, of being however they please, when they please, despite our expectations of what they should be—in a metaphoric or imaginative sense they are tricksters. Feminist ones.”
Text by Lisa Long

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