Angela Liosi ’s drawings and sculptures address the intersection of landscape, nature and the unseen. For the past few years she has been living and working in self imposed isolation mode, on a remote Cycladic island, exploring the space and echo of her surroundings. Drawing on personal connections she uses the natural world as a powerful medium of expression, interrogating humanity’s relationship to the land and the cosmos. Her recent sculptures can be read as a commentary on geological forces and how they affect the landscape and the built environment. Using elements like wood, stone and clay the works address the counterpoint between the organic and the man made looking on how landscape and its materials are formed exclusive of human interference. Drawing on personal experiences she transgresses the bounds of personal experience, to convey universal modes of being. The island becomes an important allegorical landscape in Liosi ’s work, celebrating a sense of connectivity with the natural world while at the same time evoking a sense of loss and displacement. Her intention is not to depict a landscape in a literary sense but to explore in a more abstract way. The relationship between the individual and the landscape that have shaped him. Surrounded by an expanse of water, the sea fl ows through the majority of her works and has long been a thematic preoccupation for Liosi. Her focus lies on what the sea hides in its depths, the mystery and the unseen, that which might be hidden and transformed and on the forming process the object has been through. On her e ffort to connect two worlds Liosi Creates dioramas, a fusion of real places and dreamt up locations. In this process that the artist refers to as “ceremonial” Liosi creates works that serve as a bridge between the physical and metaphysical realms.

Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including: Stoa1, Athens (2024), East Beat, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Thermisia (2024) Big Portion Small Plate, Stoa Kairi, Athens (2023), Depth in Shallow Waters, Iraklia (2023), I Can See Your House From Here, Haus N Athen off-site, Athens (2022), Evil, curated by Jannis Varelas at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), We Can Draw It, curated by Carolina Jimenez at Glogauer, Berlin (2012), Ripe, curated by Amir Fattal and Ana Finel Honigman at Tape Modern Final Show, Berlin (2012), Metrospective at Future Gallery, Berlin (2011), St. Petersburg curated by Annika von Taube at ABC, Berlin (2011), 9 Scenes of Ordinary Murders (solo show) at Widmer-Theodoridis Projectraum Ehegraben, Zurich (2010), Askisis Evexias at Gaia Center, Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens (2010), Girl Overkill 2 curated by Iris van Dongen at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2010), Earthly Delights curated by Ana Erickson at Tape Modern No. 11, Berlin (2009), Art + Nature at Villa Kazouli, Athens (2009). She has been part of Turning The Tide art residency, Evia (2024). 

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