Photo Michael Hemy
Ligia Dias is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the question of " making " and its consequences, whether in the form of artifacts or feelings. Her sculptures, installations, jewelry... invite a physical and introspective experience. The use of standards and found objects, the appropriation of craft techniques that she does not attempt to master, juxtaposed with precious materials or those that symbolize them, create disruptive contrasts that challenge our reading of conventions.
Works by Ligia Dias are in public collections at Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP, France), Fonds d'art contemporain de la ville de Meyrin (FACM, Switzerland), Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Normandie (FRAC Normandie, France), Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland), Office fédéral de la culture (OFC/mudac, Switzerland), and MAMCO (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland)
Ligia Dias is a resident at Espace Libre Court, MottAttoM in Geneva in 2025, Forum Meyrin in Switzerland in 2024, Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2011, and Atelier du 700e (Vaud) at the Cité des Arts in Paris in 2001. In 2009 she receives the ANDAM Prize in France
Ligia Dias (*1974) lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland