private residence

part of resist x reside
a material study, a suspended altar

Resistance is both an active act (standing up against something) and a passive one (not doing something one feels compelled to, holding oneself back). Residing is equally both an active decision, an active showing up in the same place repeatedly, as well as non-movement. Throughout various material explorations I’ve been investigating these two terms, utilizing my own body as well as found/altered objects in a dialogue with each other.

In ‘private residence’ forms press, hold, and meet—never fully resolving into fixed identities. The images remain permeable, printed on transparent film, allowing light and environment to pass through and shift them over time. Moments of tension and stillness are held in suspension—where pushing against and remaining within begin to blur. Resistance and residence appear not as opposites, but as intertwined conditions, each shaping how something takes form and how it endures.

I’ve felt strong resistance to sharing any kind of artist statement with these works, but find the linguistic explorations to be just as much part of the work as the visual manifestations. They act in constant collaboration.

“What we resist not only persists but grows in size.” –C.G.Jung

What if we chose our resistances consciously? Saw them not as a negative force, which inherently they aren’t. Let our pushing against become the force that grows our desires, expands them, gives them room to ripen. Until we are ready to reside in them fully.

||: Resist. Reside. Repeat. :||

resist, verb, re·​sist ri-ˈzist 

1 withstand the action or effect of

2 refrain from doing or having

antonyms: give into, accept, welcome, love, take pleasure in, suffer with, have, follow, honour, support, agree to

Inkjet prints on transparent film, wood, hand-dyed fabric, selected objects
Liz Wurzinger
2026