Signing
Artist
Lídia Vives
Exhibition
Estimat diari
Main features
- Title: Signing
- Technical: Fotografia artística
- Price: 3.530 €
Description of the work
The artwork Signing by the artist Lídia Vives.
Technique: Photography, mixed media. Printed on methacrylate on aluminium base
Measures: 90 x 60 cm.
Edition: A.P
- The artwork is available on paper with different prices and measures
It is well known that armor is used for protection. However, despite its usefulness on the battlefield, it has its drawbacks: it's heavy and very uncomfortable. Nevertheless, in a war where everyone is armed with swords, it would seem absurd not to wear it.
I can't recall exactly when I decided it was time to don my armor, one that was both protective and heavy. I probably started doing so in my teenage years. It was then that I understood why small dogs bark more than big ones: their appearance leaves them no other choice to earn respect.
That's what I did.
One day, after school, a girl from my class decided to slam me against a car in the parking lot and started hitting me. A typical circle formed, with everyone watching, shouting, and enjoying the fight, but no one intervening. She was pulling my hair and scratching me, and I wasn’t reacting. Suddenly, I realized I wasn't defending myself. I felt stupid and thought that if she was pulling my hair and scratching me, she wouldn't see a kick and a punch coming... so that's what I did. Suddenly, she stepped back, eyes full of rage, and walked away crying. I realized that if she had started hitting me, it was because she believed she could do so without any consequences.
I encountered this situation many times throughout my life. Like that time on the bus when a stranger touched me inappropriately, and it took me five stops to slap him. Or when I was new at a school and the teacher asked me to write the names of classmates who were talking on the blackboard. When she saw I hadn't written any names, she got angry and asked why. I replied, "because I'm new and I don't know their names yet." Or when I moved to Madrid and a group of fascist boys tried to bully me for being Catalan. It took me a month to subtly get back at them. Or when a woman robbed me on the street, and an hour later, I went back to confront her. Or when my art teacher told me I should study veterinary medicine because I liked drawing animals, and I told him I wasn't sure which of the two careers would be a bigger waste of time. Also, when I started giving photography lectures in my twenties and there was always someone interrupting to show off their knowledge, and I'd simply reply, "Well, thank you very much." Or when I threw a glass of water on the guy who used to knock on my door at dawn, three years after this routine started, and went to bed with a smile. Or when that ex-partner told me I could "keep" the €20 left in our joint account, and I donated it to a domestic violence association using his name and ID, and then sent him the receipt.
Over the years, armors become stronger but also heavier, making it much harder to take them off when you want to.
EXHIBITIONS
The artist Lídia Vives has also participated in various exhibitions, such as: "Old Summer Memories", Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2020), A&D, A d'Art and D de Dona, Galeria Espai Cavallers, Lleida, (2020) "Miami Photo Fair", Limited Edition Gallery, Miami, USA (2019), II Miro & Art Contest, Real Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, (2019). He has also collaborated in various magazines and publications, such as "Monochrome Photography Awards", International Black & White Photography Contest 2020, "Trierenberg Super Circuit 2020", Quintessence 2000 - (2020).
PRIZES (selection)
2024
1st Place, Team Spain, World Photographic Cup, Dallas, USA
2023
Gold Medal, Self portrait, MOTIVA Photo.Art.Circuit, Austria
Honorable Mention, Nudes (Professional), Chromatic Awards, USA
Artist Of The Month April 2023, ArtJobs
2022
1st Prize, Nude (Professional), Chromatic Awards, USA
Gold Medal, Self-portrait, Trierenberg Super Circuit, Wels, Austria
2021
Gold - Photographer of the Year 2021 (Professional), Muse Photography Awards, New York, USA
Gold - Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2020, Fine Art (Professional), Monochrome Awards
2013
Vogue Italia, “Honey lips” Best of Vogue
More information about the artwork Signing by the artist Lídia Vives at our Instagram @galeriaespaicavallers
Artist biography
Lídia Vives
The artist Lídia Vives (1991, Lleida) graduated in Fine Arts and artistic photographer.
His work is characterized by the pictorial atmosphere, the use of color and the dreamlike character that he manages to convey.
Currently living in Barcelona, she is a photographer and visual artist who has seen her work published in magazines such as Esquire and Vogue Italy and has been exhibited in numerous galleries, fairs and museums such as the Louvre in Paris. In addition, it collaborated with several musical groups, emphasizing the Spanish band Love of Lesbian.
He has traveled around the world presenting his work since his first exhibition, in 2013 and has received various international awards.
Heavily influenced by Italian Renaissance and Baroque artists, as well as some of her contemporaries, Lídia’s work is characterized by the pictorial atmosphere she uses when dealing with current issues, often using self-portrait. She is also known for hiding Easter eggs in her photographs, prompting the viewer to see further into her work.
An aspect also to emphasize in its work is the moment at which it creates an image, already in the technical effect and the anecdote. He is interested in people interpreting his photography, he creates doubts. This makes the viewer forced to look at it for a while and delve into the story. The idea is that it is disturbing, that it looks like the character will move at any moment, that
make it clear that they are only the frame of a sequence. He does not want to create scenes, but new worlds.
EXHIBITIONS
The artist Lídia Vives has participated in various exhibitions, such as: “Old Summer Memories”, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2020), A&D, A d’Art and D de Dona, Galeria Espai Cavallers, Lleida, (2020) “Miami Photo Fair”, Limited Edition Gallery, Miami, USA (2019), II Miro & Art Contest, Real Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, (2019). She has also collaborated in various magazines and publications, such as: “Monochrome Photography Awards”, International Black & White Photography Contest 2020, “Trierenberg Super Circuit 2020”, Quintessence 2000 – (2020).
PRIZES (selection)
2024
1st Place, Team Spain, World Photographic Cup, Dallas, USA
2023
Gold Medal, Self portrait, MOTIVA Photo.Art.Circuit, Austria
Honorable Mention, Nudes (Professional), Chromatic Awards, USA
Artist Of The Month April 2023, ArtJobs
2022
1st Prize, Nude (Professional), Chromatic Awards, USA
Gold Medal, Self-portrait, Trierenberg Super Circuit, Wels, Austria
2021
Gold – Photographer of the Year 2021 (Professional), Muse Photography Awards, New York, USA
Gold – Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2020, Fine Art (Professional), Monochrome Awards
2013
Vogue Italia, “Honey lips” Best of Vogue
More information on the Artist Lídia Vives at our Instagram @galeriaespaicavallers
