Mateja Fi performing at LIA (2024)
Mateja Fi's performance at archiv massiv during the Summer Show, Spinnerei (2024)
Mateja Fi performing at LIA (2024)
Mateja Fi's performance at archiv massiv during the Summer Show, Spinnerei (2024)
Yuki Watanabe was born in Shizuoka/Japan in 1981. He finished his studies at the Graduation of Department of Art at Nihon University (Department of Oil Painting) in 2006. He travelled to Leipzig, Berlin and Bremen for a month in 2014 on a fact finding trip about German Art. He lives in Chiba and works in Tokyo. “I am a painter who is always searching for possibilities of what artwork can express in the balance of colours, lines, texture and brush strokes. I strive to reproduce the reality I was feeling while sketching into my paintings. Furthermore, I focus on the implication of composition and creative uses of perspectives I also value the study of matière, which is said to be “the skin of the artist themselves”. I recognize the reality of chaos as it is, where many elements have complicated connections and relationships. I don’t put them within the limited space of the canvas, but show them in my paintings as they are, in their unique balance and dimensions.”
LIA Portraits w/ Yuki Watanabe
Izat Arif (b. 1986) is an artist based in Kuala Lumpur whose works range from drawings and installations to videos and objects. In Izat’s work, power structures are given their own personal identities, with him cheekily role-playing the characters of some of our puppet masters in property development, bureaucracy, and art criticism. His approach is often journalistic, where satire is fused with a responsive leaping between different subjects that speak to current revelations in popular media and culture.
LIA Portraits w/ Izat Arif
Malena Del Pino (born in Miami, 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked in video art, projection art, and sculpture. Malena received a BFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. While there, Malena was enrolled in SVA’s Visual and Critical Studies department, a hybrid humanities and interdisciplinary art program with a focus on Aesthetics. During their studies, Malena developed a paper collage technique that allows them to enlarge their digital images to a tremendous scale with simple copy paper and saran tape; this has now become the primary medium for the artist. Malena’s work utilizes the positioning of seemingly opposing, and random images to create a codified language. This language allows the artist to comfortably speak about taboo subject matter without repercussions.
LIA Portraits w/ Malena Del Pino
“I am shaped by my family’s common myths, our tradition of storytelling and the history of my surroundings. I am interested in places where the past and present intersect, always with the story and narrative as a focal point, whether it be the beach town of Lomma, forts along the Skåne coast, or disguised oil-pumps in Los Angeles. Through the arrangement of drawings and videos in installations I encourage the viewers to create their own stories out of my raw materials. Most of my work is based on images collected from photo albums and digital archives. The act of collecting often leads to new associations which connect the different images, creating unexpected narratives. I isolate and abstract parts of the motifs based on the story I want to tell, stripping them of their context and rearranging them in installations. When moving around the exhibition space, viewers can engage with the works from different angles, discovering new combinations of images. The fragments are retooled, telling a different pictorial tale.”
LIA Portraits w/ Hugo Hernqvist
Anna Gibson is a Barbadian contemporary artist who explores multiple mediums, crafting images of body manipulation through realism and expressionism. She has been practicing for over 5 years completing her Associates and Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts (2017). Her artwork centers around exploring and exposing vulnerabilities women have about their differences to each other, and how they seek to physically mask or morph their bodies, to achieve acceptance within their cultural, racial and social environment. The most recent artworks are crafted around the evaluation and comparison stage of your physical image. Each angle taking advantage of the mind and body’s, vulnerable disposition, while emphasizing these self-inflicted processes of metamorphosis, using harsh and soft combinations of drawing/ painting, and exaggerated shapes and forms of “abnormality”.
LIA Portraits w/ Anna Gibson
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