LILIANA DÍAZ
DISEASE
2016
Open studio
SVA, New York
AIXOPLUC SUSPÈS
2021
Soil, roots, ceramics, cloth, plants and iron
Exhibition at
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An installation made up of many components that create an immersive experience, Aixopluc Suspès takes on ritualistic characteristics and appeals to sacred practices of communing with nature - such as the bond created when choosing the land where you plan to grow.
In order to enter the centre of the installation, it is necessary for the viewer to break through the immaculate golden halo that acts as a temple within the room.
It allegorizes the stillness and temper of a shelter, with the search for an untouched space to put place our roots, which is only possible if we stay still for a few seconds while the disintegrated halo returns to its place, resumes its form and embraces us.
REFUGIO
2017
Brass, plants
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When humans seeks
nature in a country house,
parks, gardens, or on
a vacation to connect
with her/himself,
is when we should
question ourselves.
Are we living in the
most comfortable way?
are we actually enjoying
our homes? We should
always feel like if we are
held in an embrace.
This pieces is for you to
refuge, for you to feel
surrounded and protected.
AFERRARSE
2017
Ceramics
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After leaving the hospital
due to clots that formed
in my leg and then in my
lungs, I could not
understand how could I
even walk again.
After this terrible
thrombosis I could not
produce because I
couldn't digest my
existence. After a while I
was able to return to
the pottery workshop.
While creating my piece
I was holding it strong
almost suffocating it.
I clung tightly to the
mud in my hands,
which represented
perfectly as I felt myself
clinging to life.
Photography by:
Victoria Vera Ortíz
ANIDACIÓN
2017
glass/branches
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Can a bird use a nest
manufactured by men?
Could it be that the nest is
alive and that's why it can
be a home? The circle that
contains life, new life.
The membrane of what
contains something alive,
is this membrane an
extension of that life?
SI SE MARCHITA UNA,
NOS MARCHITAMOS
TODAS
2016
Roses /acrilic base
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This piece talks
about the situation
we as women are
living around the
world. Suffocated,
were sometimes
dying is the only
way to be free.
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DISEASE
2016
Stamen
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Have you ever felt
the disease trying to
take over you?
Over your body,
over the space.
Trying to fill the room,
coming from the interior
of the walls.
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POSSESION
2016
Cardboard / moss/
rocks
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Natural conquerors can
invade anything, they will
crawl and grow even in the
most hostile places. Like
moss that even if you
don´t want to, it starts
growing in places you
couldn't even imagine,
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SUBDUE
2016
Street posters painted in
white/ moss
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Do we even notice how
things conquer our
mind, skin and insides?
It is there, taking over us,
transforming us,
convincing us that we were
always the same
creature.
