Alex Alberro: I'd like to begin by asking you what public you imagine for your work? Liisa Roberts: I think, to imagine a specific public, is to propose an informative adress. Indication of information is also an act of cocealment and construction. So I prefer to imagine the involvement of the viewer in this contradiction, than to propose an illusion that a public might perceive and interpret directly. AA: Your work seems to refuse to provide significance beyond the level of form. Where do you think the content of your work is situated? LR: I don't think my work provides significance solely on the level of form, if it did it would presume the presence of an object as definitive. Of course, it would be a futile endeavor to look for specific content in form as form always suggests a trace of the past and an impulse towards the future. Similarly, representation cannot provide accurate depiction. It can, however, create an experience onto itself, and experience is also meaning. The fact that images appear incomplete and untrue within the function of signification creates a confrontation with literality. I think this emphasizes the impossibility of meaning which could exist precisely outside the influence of space and time. While my work may be carefully composed, it expresses a state which is uncategorical. In this way, my work can be a moment, a passageway, or a structure, but it cannot conclude itself.

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