Lisa Boostani
SPAIN
InCadaqués Residence 2022
insta @lisaboostani
lisaboostani.com
Lisa Boostani is a multidisciplinary artist of Iranian and Spanish origin. Her singular gaze and highly visual aesthetics serve as a powerful medium for poetic storytelling. Lisa enjoys creating sharp cinematic compositions and dreamlike atmospheres, taking the viewer on a vibrant perceptual journey.
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Aurora Consurgens
What remains of our ancestral relationship with Nature? Of our connection to ourselves? Our primal and intuitive essences? If there is nothing left, if we have fallen asleep, how can we then jump up and defend what is still left to defend?Poetics of presence, Aurora Consurgens - or The Rising of the Dawn, lifts a veil on our ways of forming a body, of being in the world and revives the idea of a ‘higher consciousness’, subtle and sensitive, finally free from its trappings.
Inspired by the medieval alchemical manuscript whose name she borrows, Lisa Boostani summons the elements and invites us to re-establish the link with the sensitive world and the living, with this nature that we inhabit and that inhabits us. Here, coming back to life, becoming nature again, means embracing powerful primal energies, full of ambivalence and oscillating between fear and beauty. The sea, source of myths and mystics, often called “mother” and thought of as a matrix, is at once a vital energy, a disturbing place and a place to be protected.
The rock, a place of anchorage, supports the present moment with strength and stability, enabling this much needed rebirth. The fire, symbol of purification and transformation, refers to that untamed inner energy, to the witches’ pyre and also to the alarming conditions of the warming planet. The creature with the severed head embodies our disconnection with nature as well as the process required for transformation.
Driven by the idea that the narratives we are imbued with play a catalytic role, Lisa Boostani invokes the power of the feminine to offer her own mythologies, going against the flow of dominant norms and imaginaries. Understanding the nude as the only nude, placing being before having; so many invitations to free ourselves from elements that incidentally alienate us: consumerism and patriarchy in the first place. Like a cry from the heart, Aurora Consurgens calls us to enter an era of a sensory, intuitive and wild consciousness; altruistic and therefore life-saving.
Texte by Sophie Puig
