Lilia Li-Mi-Yan

Artist's country of origin: Other

Born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Since 1991 living and working in Moscow. First education – choreography, ballet. Graduated from the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia in 2014, course of Documentary Photography Corporeity is in the center of the author’s creative process. The author shows the human being “corporeity” from different perspectives; she experiments with image forms and textures without using graphic editors. Thus several series were created, very different from each other, every series has a gender melody inside. For the author the sexuality is an essential part of thinking and corporeal existence of a human being. Her works argue with the imposed social doctrine, “the beauty of perfect bodies”, she offers to feel the corporeity of sexuality not only from the point of view of an external observer, but also through the perspective of feelings of an art-object. Selected exhibitions 2019 – «Pro & Contra», ARTPLAY SPb, St. Petersburg 2019 – “A drill”, “Winzavod.Open” program by Rodchenko Art School and Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow 2019 – Pärnu XVIII-th Art Summer “woman&woman”, Estonia 2019 – “Earth Mother: a sustainable art collective”, Envision Arts gallery, New York, USA 2019 – “Where is my plastic bag?”, XI International Biennale Fashion and Style in Photography, Manege central exhibition hall, Moscow 2019 – "Future was yesterday", Pärnu Fotofest, Estonia 2018 – The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles, USA 2018 – Riga Photomonth, 2018, Latvia 2017 – «Marmor», marble quarry at the lake Baikal lake, Siberia 2017 – «Plastic X-ray», Olkhon island, Siberia 2017 – «Someone wants to devour me», Akopyan gallery Awards Finalist of Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2018, category “Portraits” Finalist of Kandinsky Prize 2014 in the category “Project of the Year”. Selected publications 2019 – Der Greif Issue 12, Germany 2018 – Numero Berlin #5 “Rot” 2018 – «Post Marble» book on the results of the residence on Lake Baikal, circulation of 100 pcs. 2018 – Sculptorvox, «The Dark Forest of Consciousness», London, UK 2017 – «Nausea» book – Photobook Phenomen in Barcelona CCCB 2016 – Dazed magazine, «Using the body as a tool against censorship», London 2015 – Broadly Vice, “Filthy Rich: Photos of Russia's Wealthy Elite and Their Hired Help”