About

Lisa Riot’s multidisciplinary practice investigates the intangible, using narrative and journey to explore the junction of lived experience, memory and identity. Her work frequently occupies liminal territory: states of transition and uncertainty in which meaning is gathered, questioned and re-formed. Mythology, Jungian psychology and the symbolic language of fairy tale provide recurring frameworks, alongside an interest in ritual, the esoteric and systems of belief.

Riot is drawn to experiences that are felt but difficult to define: memory, consciousness, presence and absence, connection, and the ways identity shifts across time. Rather than attempting to explain these experiences, her work gives them physical or visual form. The body recurs both as subject and trace, while transparency, layering, repetition, blur and movement allow images and objects to hover between recognition and uncertainty.

Working across photography, moving image, sculpture and installation, Riot moves between physical, digital and constructed imagery. Her architectural background informs the spatial language of the work, with material, scale, light and the movement of the viewer contributing to how it is experienced.

Increasingly, her enquiry extends into technology: digital storage, artificial intelligence and the relationship between human consciousness, memory and technological systems. Across the practice, Riot returns to questions rather than conclusions: What remains when the physical disappears? Where does memory reside? And how might we give form to aspects of human experience that resist language, measurement or certainty?