Liliana Porter

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1941)

Bio

Liliana Porter has spent much of her career in New York. She began her studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico City and later returned to Buenos Aires to conclude her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. Her work encompasses a wide range of techniques, such as printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, theater, and public art. A recurring theme in her work is her admiration for Jorge Luis Borges, particularly for his fiction that dislocates space and draws analogies with the labyrinths of the human mind. Porter’s work subverts conventions, interrupts time, and plays with reality. It combines the absurd with the philosophical, creating extraordinary situations that involuntarily attract a cast of idiosyncratic characters. Throughout her nearly 60-year-long career, she has participated in more than 450 exhibitions in 40 countries.

Work of Liliana Porter in Colección Femsa

Pintura

Liliana Porter

1980

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