Lisa Matthys is a Brussels based artist and documentary maker.
She works primarily with video and photography, sometimes with elements of installation.
Her work looks at social relations under different (political) contexts and is grounded in collaboration gestures. In her function as artistic-educational collaborator at Fondation A Stichting in Brussels, she often works with neighborhood children. As most of them have a migration background she tries to implement notions of their cultural legacy into the workshops. Not as a dominating element but as something playful, a recognizable tool that communicates with them.
She puts a strong emphasis on reality, with a poetic vision.
After working for years with children, she noticed that children are able to create without inhibition, like an intuitive gesture, they are closer to something natural, rooted. Observing this, she became interested in their process of playing and making things, very often unaware reflections and reenactments of what they live and see in society. Exactly what artists do too.
