About
Ligia Dias is a multidisciplinary artist who explores questions of making and its consequences, whether in the form of artifacts or feelings. Her work invites a physical and introspective experience. The use of standards and found objects, as well as the appropriation of craft techniques that she does not attempt to master, creates disruptive contrasts that challenge our reading of convention.
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Works by Ligia Dias are in public collections at Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP, FR), Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain (FCAC, Geneva, CH), Fonds d'art contemporain de la ville de Meyrin (FACM, CH), Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Normandie (FRAC Normandie, FR), Kunsthaus Zürich (CH), Office fédéral de la culture (OFC/mudac, CH), and Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO, Geneva, CH).
Ligia Dias is a resident at Espace Libre Court / MottAttoM in Geneva (CH) in 2025, Forum de Meyrin in Meyrin (CH) in 2024, Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto (JP) in 2011, and Atelier du 700e (Vaud) at the Cité des Arts in Paris (FR) in 2001. In 2009 she receives the ANDAM Prize in France.
Ligia Dias (* 1974) lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.