Lisa Graves
Between Breaths

Lisa Graves is a Canadian photographer based in Montreal, Canada. She began in the field of video, dance and installation, with an emphasis on the body and movement. Her current work explores the relationship between breathing bodies. She uses photography and film to capture breath in the everyday as a means to inspire individuals to live and breathe new sensations.

During her time at ´ace, Lisa produced still images and a video piece titled Between Breaths, which depicts moving bodies that exchange breaths and intimacy. Two performers specially recruited for this collaboration worked with Lisa in building an intimate situation where the bodies (subjects) were both, simultaneously, merging and diverging, inhaling and exhaling, moving and staying still.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I work with breath. For me breath is life. It’s what lies between us. It anchors our very being. Breathing properly can prolong our life. With the Coronavirus, the healing properties of the breath seem to have reversed roles, marking boundaries as we distance, shield and mask our breath. In response, I explore how breath occupies space between bodies by using breathing props to make breath (the invisible) visible.