Lucy Raven in Conversation with Mark Godfrey at Lisson Gallery London

15 January 2026

On Thursday 11 December, Lisson Gallery presented Lucy Raven in conversation with Mark Godfrey, curator of the Kerry James Marshall exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, to discuss a new body of related works called Depositions at Lisson Street.

These ethereal, translucent panels resemble fluid cross-sections of the mountainsides or panoramic views of the same valleys she shot in California and are physically created from the same material – sand, mud, cement, salt water and other debris – through an intense process of pressure and release. By constructing a large steel and wooden channel lined with expanses of silk, Raven staged smaller-scale floods and dam breaches in a studio environment, before revealing the aftermath, traced as sedimentary imprints or chance echoes on fabric sidewalls.