Lisa Corporan-Batista

ARTIST

ART STATEMENT

Lisa Corporan-Batista's explores themes of alienation, decay, invisibility and the finite emerging from years of searching for an authentic visual language in her paintings. In 2024, after deeply absorbing social and environmental influences in her struggles in life, she began a new phase of rigorous practice in oil-based media, depicting fragmented human figures that dissolve into empty spaces, leaving behind spectral traces; rendered in realistic backgrounds. Her figures, often distorted and fragmented, move through highly realized yet empty spaces, leaving behind a lingering, vaporous imprint—a spectral miasma.

Influenced by Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and chiaroscuro techniques of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, she uses light and shadow to evoke the tension between vitality and decay. Her work examines memory’s impact on identity, where faces and forms blur, reflecting the impermanence of human presence. This exploration extends into video art using High 8 video tape, a medium tied to her formative years, influenced by Maya Deren, Andy Warhol, and Stan Brakhage. Her films capture isolation in public and natural spaces, centering on the act of retreating into corners as a gesture of both protection and solitude. Through both painting and film, Lisa renders the human form as mutable and elusive, existing between presence and disappearance.