Liselot van der Heijden's installation, entitled Nature, uses projected video stills to examine the consumption of "the natural."A visit to a national park reveals events in parking lots where tourists become papparazzi of the "wild" The camera becomes a gun substitute; a means of capture/objectification. This allows for the ultimate relaxation for the hardcore vacationing consumer. The vacation from the "civilized world" is broken down into a series of climactic moments of purchase and capture.

These images of wild animals obsessively being photographed, documented, and videotaped ultimately reveal more about the hysteric mechanisms of human culture than the essential truths of the subjects they intend to convey. With a sense of humor and irony, van der Heijden shifts the gaze from the spectacle and rests it on the spectator.

Liselot van der Heijden is a graduate of Cooper Union For the Advancement of Science And Art, and is a participant in the traveling exhibition Monumental Propaganda, organized by Komar and Melamid. Following her exhibition at Momenta, Liselot van der Heijden exhibited her work and screened her videos at numerous venues, including The New York Video Festival, NYC, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Kunstmuseum, Milwaukee, WI, and Artists Space, NYC.