Through the prism of familiar objects such as mirrors, Ligia Dias explores the question of making and what results from it, be it artefacts or feelings. Her sculptures and installations invite a physical and introspective experience.

The use of standard and found materials, the appropriation of craft techniques that she does not attempt to master, juxtaposed with precious materials or those that symbolise them, create disruptive contrasts that question and challenge our reading of convention. Notions of value and transmission are at the heart of her practice.

Ligia Dias’s work belongs to the collections of CNAP (FR); Frac Normandie (FR); Kunsthaus Zürich (CH); Collection Federal Office of Culture (OFC)/mudac (CH), and Collection MAMCO Geneva (CH)

Ligia Dias (born 1974 in Switzerland) lives and works in Geneva.

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