Angela Liosi’s drawings and sculptures address the intersection of landscape, nature and the unseen. For the past few years she has been living and working in self imposed isolation mode, on a remote Cycladic island, exploring the space and echo of her surroundings. Drawing on personal connections she uses the natural world as a powerful medium of expression, interrogating humanity’s relationship to the land and the cosmos. Her recent sculptures can be read as a commentary on geological forces and how they affect, the landscape and the built environment. Using elements like wood, stone and clay her works address the counterpoint between the organic and the man-made looking on how landscape and it ‘s materials are formed exclusive of human interference. The island becomes an important allegorical landscape in Liosi ’s work, celebrating  a sense of connectivity with the natural world while at the same time evoking a sense of loss and displacement. Her intention is not to depict a landscape in a literary sense but to explore it in a more abstract way. Working surrounded by an expanse of water, the sea flows through the majority of her works and has long been a thematic preoccupation. Her focus lies on what the sea hides in its depths, the mystery and the unseen, that which might be hidden and transformed and the forming process the object has been through. Liosi s works attempt to serve as a bridge between the physical and metaphysical realms creating dioramas, a fusion of real places and dreamt up locations, a process that the artist refers  as “ceremonial”

Bio

Angela Liosi (b.1980, Athens, Greece) lives and works between Athens and the Cyclades, Greece and is a graduate of the Athens School Of Fine Arts. Her work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions internationally, including:Stoa1,Athens 2024(group): East Beat, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Thermisia (2024, group): Big Portion Small Plate, Stoa Kairi, Athens (2023, group); Deep Depths In Shallow Waters, Iraklia (2023, group); I Can See Your House From Here, Haus N Athen, Athens (2022, group); Evil, curated by Jannis Varelas, Palais de Tokyo Paris (2012); We Can Draw It, curated by Carolina Jimenez, Glogauer Berlin (2012, group); Ripe, curated by Amir Fatal & Ana Finel Honigman, Tape Modern Final Show (2012); Kunst shot, curated by Stefania Angelini, s.k. Robinson, Berlin (2011); Metrospective, Future Gallery, Berlin (2011); St. Petersburg, curated by Annika Von Taube, ABC, Berlin (2011, group); 9 Scenes of Ordinary Murders, Widmer-Theodoridis projectraum Ehegraben, Zurich (2010, solo); Askisis Evexias, Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens (2010, group); Madonna Psycho Slut, curated by Despoina Stokou, Grimmuseum, Berlin (2010, group); Girl Overkill 2, curated by Iris Van Dongen, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2010, group); Girl Overkill curated by Iris Van Dongen, Forgotten Bar, Berlin (2009, group): Earthly Delights, curated by Ana Erickson, Tape Modern no11, Berlin (2009, group): The 2nd Dragoner Regiment, Atelierhof-Kreuzberg, Berlin (2009, group); Residancy (2024) Turning the Tide, Evia Local Urban Lab II

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