Liliya Lifanova

Folded Stacked 3 Jacks Repeat Rectangle, 2018
11.75 x 17.75 x 10 inches Acrylic, housepaint, milk paint, sand on canvas

Folded Rectangle Jack Repeats Black LtBlue White Recto, 2018
46 x 29.75 inches Acrylic, sand, milk paint, house paint, on canvas

Folded Rectangle Jack Repeat Black Lt Blue White, Verso, 2018
11.75 x 17.75 x 3.25 inches Acrylic, sand, milk paint, house paint, on canvas

Folded Rectangle Jack Repeat Iron Oxide Grey White Verso, 2018
11.75 x 17.75 x 3.25 inches Acrylic, sand, milk paint, house paint, on canvas

Folded Rectangle Jack Repeat Iron Oxide Lt Blue White Recto, 2018
46 x 29.75 inches Acrylic, sand, milk paint, house paint, on canvas

Folded Rectangle Jack Repeats Iron Oxide Lt Blue White Verso, 2018
11.75 x 17.75 x 3.25 inches Acrylic, sand, milk paint, house paint, on canvas

Folded Circle 2 pcs Lt pink, lt yellow, white, Recto, 2017
7.625 inches each Acrylic, sand, on canvas

Folded Linen Ladder Flag, 2018
9.5 x 29.5 x 3.25 inches Milk paint on linen

Folded Linen Ladder Flag, Recto,  2018
35.75 x 84 inches Milk paint on linen

Folded 2 with Straps Cut Out Pink Yellow, 2018
11 x 7 x 10 inches each Acrylic, sand, on canvas

Folded Straps Cut Out Yellow, 2018
11 x 7 x 10 inches Acrylic, sand, on canvas

Folded Straps Cut Out Pink, 2017
11 x 7 x 10 inches Acrylic, sand, on canvas

FOW, Hyacinth Girl, Character Study, Side A, 2017
48 x 72 inches Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Hyacinth Girl, Character Study, (folded) 2017
6 x 26 x 6 inches Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax

FOW, Commanding Man, Character Study, Side A, 2017
48 x 72 inches Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Commanding Man, Character Study, (folded) 2017
36 x 26 x 6 inchesCanvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax 

FOW, Fading Man, Character Study, Side A, 2017
48 x 72 inchesCanvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax

FOW, Fading Man, Character Study, (folded) 2017
6 x 26 x 6 inchesCanvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax

FOW, Wasted Woman, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Flag Man, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Palette Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Hyacinth Girl, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Commanding Man, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Flighty Woman, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Flag Man, Character Study, Fragment II, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Commanding Man, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Fading Man, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Palette Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Texture Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Tiresias, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Palette Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Commanding Woman, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Commanding Woman, Character Study II, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

FOW, Flag Men, Character Study, Fragment, Side A, 2017
Canvas, sand, acrylic, latex, and wax  

2Nothing on Blank, 2013
9.5 x 45 x 1 3/8 inches Paper and wood

X, pink/white, 2013
4/12 x 159 inches Canvas, acrylic, steel

WL (paper and wood, v1), 2013
28 x 40 x 7/8 inches Paper and wood 

Untitled (rises and dips), 2013
7 x 10 inches Canvas and acrylic on boards

TOBU, 2013
dimensions variable Canvas and acrylic

Canvas, study, 2013
7 x 10 inches Canvas, pencil, acrylic, on boards

Lv1, 2013
40 x 55 inches Canvas, acrylic

Untitled (brown/lt.blue, rolled), 2013
28 x 20 inches Acrylic, canvas on wood

Untitled (canvas, yellow paint), 2008
14 x 18 inches Canvas and acrylic on board

37.5 x 50 inches Paper and safety pins

37.5 x 50 inches Paper and safety pins 

Igreja do Calvário, Marvão. Photo: Imagem Fixa

Igreja do Clavário, Marvão. Photo: Imagem Fixa

Photo: Imagem Fixa

Flight Over Wasteland is an adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s modern epic poem The Waste Land, 1922. Filmed and exhibited at the Knockdown Center, NY April 12-15, 2017.

Choreography: Davy Bisaro, Sound: Hiroya Miura.

Performers:

Mickaela Tombrock, Christopher Pio, Oliver James Burke, Tom Cryan, Sandra Herlog, Alexandra Bigourdan, Andrea Davina Clinton,  Corrine Paulson, Tatiana Galliher Jackson, Antonio Barrera-Mejia, Bradley Carter, Alanah Rafferty, Carlos E. Rojas, Shinno Seto,  Andrew Braddock

RUMOUR FROM GROUND CONTROL

(exhibited from  September 9 - October 18, 2015 at Rooster Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC)

"This exhibition is a compilation of works relating to Lifanova’s progression between the years 2011 and 2015, during which time the artist traveled to and lived throughout Europe and Central Asia. The title borrows from David Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes, which reports on Major Tom, a figure introduced on an earlier album who travels to the far reaches of space in a tin can. This character’s solitary departure into unknown and uncharted territory runs parallel to Lifanova’s recent artistic journey, exploring new mediums and inventing startling new methods to create her work. The sculptures included in Rumour from Ground Control introduce intricate tensions between a sense of uncertainty and groundedness, held in balance by echos of the artist's previous series and ideas.

Several pieces in the show can be traced to Lifanova’s Rolled series--delicately rolled pieces of paper, canvas or fabric arranged into patterned compositions--a body of work that first emerged in 2006. These works contribute to the rhythm of the exhibition, set by repeating units and symbols, and amplified by sculptures, installed in a yin-yang arrangement, setting up a kind of game between sameness and difference.

Ceramic “chevaux de frise” (modeled after Czech hedgehogs, used as a defense in WWII), ceramic sticks and "flags" made of heavy parchment meters in lengths, further this play in opposites and contribute to the pretend quality of the objects as their function is unequivocally and undeniably compromised by both material and scale. In conflict with their implied military purpose, these sculptures, among others in her installation, oscillate between being an aerial view and a direct engagement with the spectator's body as each piece, scaled both up and down from its referent, measures itself against human proportions.

Lifanova’s practice is fertile with contradictions, where the artist’s truth and its immediate refusal live side-by-side in a precise equilibrium held in balance by a predominance of control. The work’s martial aesthetic is often challenged by its fragile nature, thus imbuing these carefully crafted objects with a quality of humanness."

Canvas, cement, acrylic.   30.5 x 5 x 2 inches

Canvas, cement, acrylic.   30.5 x 5 x 2 inches

Canvas, cement, acrylic medium, wood.

26 x 24 x 16 inches / 19.25 x 23.5 x 34.25 inches / 18.25 x 29.5 x 59.5 inches

Ceramic.

9.25 x 9.25 x 9.25 inches

Ed. 20 (+ 1 A.P. + 4 H.C.)

Ceramic, cement, aluminum, acrylic medium.

22 x 24 x 2.5 inches

Canvas, cement, acrylic medium.

Canvas, cement, acrylic. 

30.5 x 5 x 2 inches

Wood, parchment almost paper, ink, acrylic spray paint.

Variable dimensions.

931 x 30 inches / 961 x 30 inches  / 1201 x 30 inches

Wood, parchment almost paper, ink, acrylic spray paint.

Variable dimensions.

961 x 30 inches

Ceramic.

Variable dimensions.

This video project is based on Rainer Maria Rilke’s story “Song of Truth,” shot in in 2012 Turin, Italy, currently in post-production. Non-professional performers, residents of Porta Palazzo, Turin, were asked to participate in this film.

In collaboration with Alessandro Gioiello: 1st Assistant Director, Acting Producer, Actor. Yukio Unia: 2nd Assistant Director, Camera. Duccio Burberi: Director of Photography. André Campos: Camera. Giovanna Frisardi: Still Photographer. Participants/Actors: Cristina Matossi, Alessandro Gioiello, Giuseppe Cirigliano, Giovanni Cirigliano, Gabriella Dal Farra, OFeya. Music: Cristina Matossi, Olga Sergeeva. Voiceover: reader unknown, archival recording. Filmed while at viadellafucina Artist Residency (Kanichenhaus), September to November, 2012.

I fragmented a retired Soviet army tent and created an installation using its most exterior layer as a stage curtain, its second flannel layer for flat wall works made of thousands of scrolls, and its most interior cotton layer for the production of costumes. Phase II of the project was a durational performance where I stamped a traditional Russian embroidery motif onto a roll of rice paper with the fingerprints of the exhibition attendees. The performers, dressed to represent the characters in the aforementioned embroidery design, performed gestures each time a new fingerprint was imprinted onto the paper.

Produced while at Gridchinhall Artist Residency, Moscow, Russia September 2011 to January 2012, organized by Salamatina Gallery, with the support of the Fulbright Program, Institute of International Education. 

Flying Carpet Project was conducted in the spring and summer of 2011 in Spain. I appeared before two groups of children in remote villages of Catalonia and Andalusia with an invitation to participate in a performance workshop where I teach felt-making with local wool in exchange for stories and visits to the “magical” places around the villages of the participants (so as to imbue the carpet with flying capabilities). The resulting pieces of felt were stitched together into carpets (later exchanged between the two schools that hosted the project) by a group of senior women in the villages and ultimately presented in two exhibitions alongside ephemera from the performance workshops, “rolled series” made from local materials, and video documentation of the performance. 

Photography: Rosana Camára, Pau Cata Marles, Colin Bloom