The research of Ligia Dias spans a broad spectrum where the history of forms becomes a field for experimentation and transformation. Through sculpture, site-specific installations, and jewelry, she interrogates the "role of the artist" and the ways in which our society hierarchises material production according to a pre-established system of values. By creating works that evoke functional or personal spaces, she highlights the importance of these physical structures in shaping our cultural identity.

The combination of found materials with precious elements in assemblages of varying scales generates an unexpected contrast, enabling Dias to transcend traditional artistic boundaries. While maintaining a unique and coherent vision, she explores the full scope of her practice — including its social, societal and ecological dimensions — to move beyond the polarities between art and industrial production, and between artwork and object. Her highly complex, often paradoxical practice resides at the intersection of physical experience and allegorical depth.

Ligia Dias (*1974) lives and works in Geneva. Recent exhibitions of her work have been held at Lovay Fine Arts Geneva; Musée d'art moderne et contemporain – MAMCO Geneva; Bally Foundation Lugano; Musée des beaux-arts – MCBA Lausanne. Her work features in public collections: Collections d'art de la Confédération (Switzerland); Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain Meyrin – FACM; Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain Genève – FCAC; Centre national des arts plastiques – CNAP France, Fonds régionale d'art contemporain Normandie Caen – FRAC Normandie France.