In his interdisciplinary projects he searches for traces of the tension between natural science, archeology, arthistory and artistic work while examining pictorial processes and the ephemeral state of images.
With his works about the italian fascism and the German national socialism he has been invited to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1996.
His works "Räume“ are based around living quarters and museum displays which he converted into walk-in pinhole cameras.
In his artistic realisation he used the same bacteria, which are destroying the “original” site, as active participants in a constructive image process.
2008 “Vom Werden und Vergehen der Bilder - Edgar Lissel“, Publisher Schlebrügge Vienna, ISBN 978-3-85160-139-8