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Luz Lizarazo

Hacer un paisaje tensando la piel (2), 2017
Hacer un paisaje tensando la piel (8), 2017

Courtesy: Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá
Luz Lizarazo
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Luz Lizarazo

Hacer un paisaje tensando la piel (2), 2017

Stockings in Plexiglass box
25 × 25 × 5 cm

TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

 

Luz Lizarazo

Hacer un paisaje tensando la piel (8), 2017
Stockings in Plexiglass box
25 × 25 × 5 cm

TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

 

Luz Lizarazo transforms intimate materials into charged topographies of memory and identity in these sculptural works from her ongoing Piel series. Using nylon stockings—objects that cling to the body and echo the texture of skin—Lizarazo cuts, weaves, and arranges these veiled layers within transparent Plexiglass boxes. The result is a suspended terrain of tension and tenderness, a preserved anatomy of care, control, and exposure.

 

Piel—Spanish for “skin”—serves as both subject and metaphor. For Lizarazo, skin is more than a surface; it is an archive of life. It bears the visible imprints of age, trauma, identity, and emotion. Her gesture is precise yet visceral, echoing the acts of a forensic pathologist or taxidermist—practices of reading, interpreting, and preserving bodily matter. The stockings, chosen in a range of skin tones, evoke not only racial and gendered identities but also the cultural politics of visibility and protection.

 

By encasing these fragmented, tactile weavings in hard, transparent structures, Lizarazo invites us to contemplate the contradictions of embodiment: how the body is shaped, marked, veiled, and revealed. These works are at once personal and universal—quiet but potent meditations on vulnerability, intimacy, and the narratives inscribed in the human skin.

 

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Luz Lizarazo Hacer un paisaje tensando la piel (2), 2017
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