Wiebke Leister

Wiebke Leister is an artist and researcher who teaches at the Royal College of Art in London. Her research aims to understand how movement enters the structure of the still image, and how the liveness of viewing interacts with our interpretative processes. Building on her earlier research into the ambiguous character of snake-women in Japanese theatre, she is currently researching themes of contradictory Serpent-Symbolisms in the collection of the National Gallery. Her recent book ‘Echoes & Callings: A Hannya Manifesto’ was published with Ma Bibliothèque in 2023.