LIGIA DIAS

Ligia Dias creates functional and non-functional domestic objects. The forms she creates by appropriating artisanal techniques that she does not seek to master, are the result of a research that she has been conducting since the end of her graphic design studies at the ECAL, University of art and design, Lausanne, Switzerland (1999). This research attempts to reveal the intimate relationship between design, fashion and art, through the study of the role of objects, and that of the author as producer. To this end, she goes back and forth from flat to volume, from poor to noble, while manipulating interpretations through the forms and images she creates. 

Today, after 20 years of working for the fashion industry and collaborating with renowned artists, she continues these experiments by arranging on the same level of value everything that comes from her reflection and feeds her global project: jewelry, mirrors, sculptures, presentation devices, installations, images, exhibitions... 

As an artist, a woman and a mother, in the spirit of transmission and in the path of William Morris, she wishes through ornamentation and the use of discarded, recycled or found materials to abolish the overproduction of useful or decorative objects for purely capitalist purposes. Since the official presentation of her last commercial collection in 2014, she has been affirming this premise and practically no longer buys raw materials until the stock that served her former productions is exhausted. Today, as at the beginning of her career and in the light of major social and ecological changes, she aspires to offer beautiful objects with stated meanings. 

Her work has been exhibited in international institutions as among others the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Musée des Beaux-arts in Lausanne in Switzerland. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Swiss Federal Art Collection hosted at the mudac in Lausanne (acquisition 2021) and the Centre national des arts plastiques in France (acquisition 2011). Since 2017 she is curating the curatorial project THE CORNER PIECE that shows together her work and the work of other artists. The project has been showed in Bruxelles, Lisbon, and Design Miami in Miami in 2018.