Liz Deschenes (Boston, 1966) lives and works in New York.
Liz Deschenes (born 1966) is an....
Liz Deschenes' works are guided by her experimentation with the technical conditions of the medium, the construction of new perspectives on reality, and a deep interest in architecture as well as its influence on our perception.
Described as the "quiet giant of post-conceptual photography" in the New York Times in 2014, Liz Deschenes liberates her photographic-sculptural works from any representational task historically assigned to photography.
Her minimalist works focus on the conditions of perception and the technical coordinates of “image making”: material, place, time, and architecture. The "how we see our reality" thus is always intertwined with a political component in Liz Deschenes' work.
According to Eva Respini, "At the core, Deschenes' work embodies resistance: the resistance to one definition of photography, the resistance to time, and the resistance to representation, a deeply personal and political act. The resistance to representation in many forms also includes the re