About

In her work, Talisa walks the fine line between art and investigative journalism. Her starting point is often sociological in concordance with her own experience. For research, she goes on a personal quest, by putting her body where her questions are. She questions laws and social norms surrounding public space, (il)legality, symbolisms and ownership. Her work takes shape in site-specific installations, performance and video. 

At present, Talisa is the captain of the iconic queer bar Saarein in Amsterdam. This role operates as an extension of her artistic research, engaging the bar as a site-specific social space shaped by questions of publicness and privacy, community-care, legality and ownership. What may appear as a departure is, for her, a continuation of the same inquiry: placing herself within the structures she seeks to understand. Saarein functions as a lived environment where social norms, informal rules, and forms of care are negotiated daily.

She works and lives in Amsterdam.