KATE LIEBMAN

Kate Liebman was born in 1991. She graduated from Yale College in 2013. Through painting, printmaking, drawing, and animation, she explores mediated images of contemporary and historical events. She lives and works in New York City.

I want to address you, reader, if you are in fact still reading and looking. I want to ask you something.

I want to ask you if you think that seeing leads to understanding?

I am not convinced. And yet it sometimes feels like the entire world hinges on the belief that seeing something will lead to understanding something.

There are titles of books I have read parts of or books I have thought about reading that sit on my shelf that seem to take up the issue of vision and knowledge. I find these titles very appealing, but the text inside them very challenging.

I want to ask you what shape you think the landscape is, and what shape you think surveillance is?

I want to ask you if you’ve ever seen small stones on top of a grave?

I want to ask you how you think time works?

I want to ask you if you think these images are romantic? I want to ask you if you’ve ever uploaded an image to google maps streetview?

I want to ask you what you do when you’re faced with a camera?

I want to ask you who you think was meant to see these images?

I want to ask you is now a phrase that’s stuck in my head but I’ve run out of questions to ask you.

RIGHT A Month Ago, 2017 Stills (monoprints) 01:19 minutes video, projected and looped

NEXT SPREAD, LEFT After Goya, (stills), 2018-2019 84 colored pencil drawings on vellum, projection

Battle of Algiers, Scene 1, 2019 Oil on canvas 51" × 69"