Her work includes prints, drawings, works on canvas, photography, video and installation as well as public projects.
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Liliana Porter
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Liliana Porter
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Liliana Porter
Liliana Porter plays privately as well, breaking and distorting her toys in paintings and Polaroids to create fanciful and troubling portraiture from dolls and domestic objects. From a porcelain bride with its head snapped off to a canvas of a tiger with a growling soundpiece, the artist has a flair for off-beat humour and wry commentary…
Liliana Porter
For her first web-based artwork, Liliana Porter presents Rehearsal, a choir of seven yellow toy chicks singing “La donna è mobile” from Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera Rigoletto. The viewer can click on each chick to see a close up and hear a “solo” – one of seven variations on the familiar canzone including a march, a tango, a version with a panhellenic guitar, and a 1907 recording by Enrico Caruso. The music was composed and performed by Sylvia Meyer, with whom Porter has long collaborated on her video projects…
Liliana Porter
Works in the TATE collection
Liliana Porter
Drawing with plastic hammer
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