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ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an Oslo-based French and Trinidadian artist and scenographer currently investigating the colonial and human-centered legacies within generational knowledge, from a mixed-identity perspective. My work focuses on exploring the relationship between ecology, time, identity and kinship, through a research-based practice.
This practice is both narrative and participatory in nature: I work with imagination, collective world-building and storytelling as my framework to explore imaginations of sustainable futures, together with other beings, with an emphasis on social and climate justice.
I am inspired by post-humanistic theories, decolonial æsthetics, black and eco-feminism among other thoughts. This, together with my own artistic practice, creates a variety of project-based artworks that act as communication capsules for my research. These can take the form of storytelling performances, artist-book publications and installations.
ARTIST BIO
Liselli is an Oslo-based French-Trinidadian artist and scenographer who weaves ecology, identity, and storytelling into speculative, reparative futures.
Her Caribbean-European mixed identity perspective, coupled with being a mother and a person of colour, accompanies her practice and guides her project-based artworks, often taking the form of storytelling performances, publications, films and installation. These are informed by participatory workshop processes as research method, but also by post-humanist theories, decolonial æsthetics, black studies, eco-feminism and eco-criticism.
Liselli’s current work engages with generational knowledge from a mixed identity through a series of what she calls ‘ritual-workshops’. These aim to challenge the inherited knowledge shaped by anthropocentric and extractive colonial practices, and to collectively reflect on the knowledge transmitted to future generations.
Liselli has had her work exhibited with the DA2 modern art museum, Salamanca, SP (2025) as well as other group exhibitions with the National Academy of Arts, Oslo, NO (2024 & 2025) and the Henie Onstad Museum (2023). Her participatory practice has led to several workshops with different communities and artist collectives, such as Sletteløkka Grendehus for the Kokeboka Sletteløkka recipe-book project (2025), Diaspora Kollektiv during their Reflections on Sanctuary exhibition (Gamle Munch Museet, 2024), and with JAM Collective, during their Oslo Zine Festival (2024). She has also collaborated with herb garden group Urtealliansen at Losæter Park and during Økouka (2024), as well as with the Oslotrær project, with Oslo kommune (2024).
CURRICULUM VITAE (link to CV)