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 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.


Alongside her artistic practice, Ligia Dias collaborated from 2002 to 2021 with major fashion brands such as Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière, Comme des Garçons, and Loewe by Jonathan Anderson, among others. Her work is exhibited in Switzerland and abroad, and most recently at Lovay Fine Arts (Geneva), the Bally Foundation (Lugano), and the MCBA (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Lausanne). Dias's works are part of private and public collections such as the Swiss Confederation Art Collection (OFC), Meyrin Contemporary Art Fund (FACM), Geneva City Council Contemporary Art Fund (FCAC Genève), CNAP and FRAC Normandie in France. 

Ligia Dias (* 1974) lives and works in Geneva, in Switzerland