Liselli is an Oslo-based French-Trinidadian artist and scenographer. She explores the connections between ecology, time, identity and kinship, and the narratives these create in relation to living beings, both human and non-human. Liselli’s research-based practice works with world-building, collective story-making & story-telling. She uses this as her framework to explore imaginaries together with other beings, as a way to rethink inclusive and reparative futures.
Her Caribbean-European person of colour, mother, and immigrant lens accompanies her practice and guides her project-based artworks, often taking the form of storytelling performances, publications, films and installation. These are informed by participatory workshop processes but also by post-humanist theories, decolonial æsthetics, black studies, eco-feminism and eco-criticism.
Liselli’s current work engages with generational knowledge through participatory and ritual practices for collective dialogue on identity and legacy. Through a series of ritual-workshops, she challenges the inherited knowledge shaped by anthropocentric and extractive colonial practices, and aims to collectively reflect on the knowledge transmitted to future generations.
Liselli’s participatory practice takes the form of workshops with discussion, elaborated through various collaborations. She has had workshops with Diaspora Kollektiv during their Reflections on Sanctuary exhibition at Gamle Munch Museet in 2024, and with JAM Collective during their Oslo Zine Festival, 2024. She has also collaborated with herb garden group Urtealliansen at Losæter Park and during Økouka, in 2024, as well as with the Oslotrær project, with Oslo kommune.
1: A Brief Encounter with Tree-Time. Photo: Marie Cole
2: Letter-Writing as Ritual. Photo: Janelool
3: Letter-Writing as Ritual. Photo: Mimmi Koponen
4: Unfolding Boxes-Unfolding Roots. Photo: Marea Vigesaa
5. Use your senses! Photo: Mimmi Koponen
