Liv Stevenson

What is lost in an exchange? 

How many components constitute a whole? 

Each facet is limited when isolated; the written word from the voice - the voice from the body - the body into parts. These gaps exhibit failings but enable opportunity: illustrating a knowable unknown, cultivating absence as a material through which to understand the self. 

This space is not a vacuum in which sound cannot pass… but a conversation. The loss is not only of meaning or intent, reciprocation or understanding, but of bodily tangibility. 

Liv uses automata, image-based text work and writings to foster a-human interactions - examining: agency, mutuality, distinctions (within humans and between the non-human), queerness, and traces…

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