This abstract work features a striking composition of earthy tones and textured brushstrokes. The dominant gray background is contrasted by the bold, expressionistic figure emerging from the canvas, rendered in rich shades of brown and gold. The painting's thick, impasto-like surface creates a sense of depth and tactility, suggesting a powerful, almost sculptural presence. While the subject matter remains ambiguous, the artwork evokes a sense of human emotion and embodied experience, characteristic of the artist's distinctive style. The work's intimate scale and intimate perspective invite the viewer to engage with its raw, introspective quality. ...
Lia D Castro’s artistic practice offers an approach to art that goes beyond her own paintings, texts and installations. It encompasses the complexity of society, and seeks to build more meaningful and inclusive narratives and lived experiences that have been overlooked in museums and art galleries.
For the past 10 years, Lia D Castro has worked as educator, sex worker, transgender rights activist and gives antiracism and anti-transphobia lectures in art institutions, as well as in national and multinational companies. She also has interests in areas such as hate criminology, anthropology, behavioral psychology and sociology.
Full of meanings and resonances, Lia D Castro’s paintings reflect on gender and race hierarchies, art history, transphobia and biased notions of femininity, in works that invite the viewer to examine them closely. A powerful call to action, emphasizing the importance of representation and inclusivity.
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Founded in 2011, Carlos/Ishikawa’s program is dedicated to considered and ambitious exhibitions that offer diverse artists’ perspectives on structural, socio-cultural, and political questions. The program focuses on international artists with often wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary and experimental practices. There is an interest within the program of challenging the aesthetic conventions of conceptual art, and a focus on art that is able to operate on an affective, emotional level as well as a rigorous intellectual one. The gallery has offered many artists their first solo show, many of whom have gone on to receive recognition internationally. ...
