6th Sharjah Biennial Catalogue, April '03 - essay by Peter Lewis
The artist team Liz-N-Val has collaborated for over twenty years. Liz-N-Val use unorthodox materials, processes and concepts as a 'direct' approach to making art. The deployment of mass-media, in an unmediated form entering into the art medium, and the intervention into its distribution systems, combines with the use of public space expanded the individual possibilities for a post-conceptual practice. The artists have set precedents in the expanded field of art since the conceptual art movement. Liz-N-Val are the founders of Abstractrealism: the philosophy of "something from nothing Art". Abstractrealism is the logical outcome of Abstract Art and Realism.
