Reinis Lismanis acknowledges and challenges the conventional structures and frameworks present in image-making, display systems, and art production in general in a process-oriented manner. His ongoing interest in engaging with the multitude of agents present in the everyday of his practice working as an assistant in artist studios in London offers an opportunity to reflect on past work whilst simultaneously using it as a source for producing new iterations and interpretations. Lismanis’ exhibition at LOOK Gallery is an assemblage of pre-existing material and conceptual elements developed for (as well as rejected from) previous projects that have been revised and reworked during the pandemic. These will be exhibited alongside newly produced material.

The artist’s work encompasses media such as photography (both his own and found photographs) as well as supplies and scraps leftover from producing photographic images. These are rearranged into collages and spray-painted to reference to the urban environment his practice takes place in. The material presented in this exhibition has evolved out of a continuous use of photographic and artistic production paraphernalia. Consequently, Lismanis’ unwavering commitment to materials, production conditions, studio and exhibition spaces play a fundamental role in his practice, which results in an open-ended conversation between the subjective every day and the formal qualities of the work. His fragmented and sometimes irrational approach creates new forms, meanings, and arrangements and pays attention to the structure of things as such.