“Lisa Holzer explores logics of desire through pictures, text, performative gestures, and subtle alterations to exhibition conventions. In recent works, vulgar yet appetizing photographs of food are rendered formless, enlarged, and abstracted to a painterly, and sometimes anthropomorphic, quality, calling to mind descriptions of aesthetic experience referred to by Theodor Adorno as “tasteful savoring” and “physical devouring,” that brings art into an uncomfortable proximity to “cuisine and pornography.”

The resulting images at once mock and celebrate legacies of abstract painting while also teasing cliches and the expectations related to the photographic medium itself. With humor and critical wit, her practice addresses conditions of labor, exposure, visibility, and power confronting artists, artworks, and the art system itself.” - Post Brothers
Published on the occasion of “Lisa Holzer – Esst Mich!” exhibition at the Kunstverein München (25. Mai–25. August 2019).

Co-published with Kunstverein München
Contributors: Lisa Holzer, David Jourdan, Trevor Lee Larson, Samo Tomšič, Linda Spjut, Ariane Müller, Lisa Jeschke