Talisa Lallai’s work combines her own photographic and film material with found footage from private slide collections, vintage magazines and convolutes of commercial photographs. Rather than capturing a reality, it is the subjective perception of a place that is of key importance to her. Lallai’s pictorial language is based on real and imaginary journeys, where she particularly focuses on idealisations and stereotypes of the South in general and what ideas and images it evokes in us.

Talisa Lallai was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1989. She lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Education

Talisa Lallai studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Georg Herold and Rebecca Warren.

Exhibitions

Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Super Super Markt (Berlin), Parisa Kind (Frankfurt am Main), Kunststiftung DZ Bank (Frankfurt am Main), Ludwig Forum (Aachen), Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Høvikodden), Salon Dahlmann (Berlin), Kunstverein Reutlingen, BolteLang (Zürich), Cultural Foundation (Nicosia), Sies + Höke (Düsseldorf) and KIT (Düsseldorf).