Event detail
Evidence
Solely In My Head
Lia Vio / Solely in My Head
2-25 February 2012
Private View
02 February 2012
7pm - 9pm
The artistic career of Lia Vio began in 2001 with a scholarship from Salzburg Summer Fine Art Academy, with
it's masters as famous as Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Hermann Nitsch, etc.
Her awards include the prestigious "German Photographer of the Year", which acknowledges a photographer's
outstanding body of work (2007, 'Deeper Perspective' IPA) and she was recently profiled in "Germany's Best
Photographers", a comprehensive guide to prominent individuals in modern commercial and fine art
photography.
Her work positions the viewer as a voyeur and participant in a surrealistic journey of self-reflection, offering
not only formal inquiry into the ephemeral visual relationships around us, but also the blended aspects of the
visual world and visual thinking as well. The visual perception of her photographs operates on many planes:
you can always see more in conjunction with what you're focused on. While looking at her artwork, you're
always aware of something else - perhaps in your peripheral vision, perhaps in your visual memory, perhaps in
a physical sensation that seems to have nothing to do with vision at all. Lia Vio admits her artwork is heavily
influenced by mythology and philosophy, as well as by the work of Gottfried Helnwein, Damien Hirst and
Michel Comte.
Tokarska Gallery is showing large format photographs from the Series "Reincarnation", "Solely in My Head",
"Mining the Silent Evidence" and others. Each photograph is cohesive within its series, both formally and
conceptually, evoking a sense of awe, mystery and suspense.
Lia Vio lives & works in Düsseldorf, Germany
http://www.tokarskagallery.co.uk
