Lizarazo produces drawings, objects and installations that speak to the feminine condition, the fragility of life, vulnerability, and the need for protection.
The domestic realm appears as a recurring theme in her work, as do crafts traditionally associated with women like sewing or knitting; images such as flowers and birds; jewelery techniques like lost-wax casting; and delicate materials including porcelain, glass, gauze and human hair.
In her more recent works, Lizarazo creates drawings based on the intricate patterns of gratings used to protect windows and doors, which are enlarged to architectural proportions with stencils and applied to walls, or used in windows to create interplays of light and shadow. She also sometimes collects actual gratings and pieces them together into large sculptural objects.
The exhibition is within the framework of a Colombian arts project, including solo exhibitions by Colombian artists which are being displayed in Morocco, Israel, Australia, Turkey, Singapore and Vietnam.
Luz Ángela Lizarazo was born in 1966 in Bogotá, Colombia, where she currently lives and works. She has a PhD in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, France.
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