My subject is the female body, my interest: the biological and ideological constraints that shape or limit its exposition. In my recent work, I begin with a bone form, a body fragment, that I continuously transform using physical and digital processes. The bone, a metaphor for the body, becomes other than itself and a site of invention.
I have always understood the fragment to be, more than a remnant of destruction or decay that triggers memories of a distant past. A fragment is also a referent waiting to be situated, opening on another kind of access.
In ‘ The Bone as …’ series, the bone is given the liberty to choose its surfaces and extensions. It traces the silhouette of the given article of dress and defines its texture, while neither it nor the dress function per their material and formal indications. I see the body, not as the sum of its limits but as an unbounded entity, multiple in possibility: that is a body freely embodying its futures.
Bio: Lilia Ziamou (Greek and American) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Recent exhibitions include Kimmel Galleries|NYU (2019, one-person), Neumeraki.com (2020), Undercurrent, Brooklyn (2021), Filter Space, Chicago (2021), Whitebox, New York (Spring 2022), Whitebox, New York (Summer 2022). Lilia Ziamou was an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (2014) and a Fulbright/Stavros Niarchos Fellow (2017). She holds a Master’s from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York. University. www.liliaziamou.com – IG: @liliaziamou