Lia Sáile / RÉSUMÉ
21 years young, this artist from Germany has the almost magical power to polarize people, no matter what she is doing. Seemingly breezing and at the same time self-destructively obsessed she absorbs almost everything surrounding her, building a very intense personal universe of outrageous powerful creativity, deep thoughts and dreams.
No matter if she is acting, jazz singing, writing, drawing, painting or photographing, she always seeks for her limits, crossing boarders with a smile on her face. Sáile loves to provoke, but in a very sophisticated often fragile way, not consciously hurting but faithfully disturbing the viewer and herself by revealing deepest insights to the ones that take the time to inhale her hidden messages.
When starting her studies of Theater, Film and Media in Vienna, she discovered her first Polaroid camera in 2005 on a Viennese flea market. During the first months she immediately discovered a warm kinship with this medium, especially visible in the way she can handle expired film and push this very sensible material to yet unknown possibilities. Even if expired film is hardly predictable, she never leaves anything to chance. Too precise are her concepts and plans, often producing little Polaroid film sequences, full of multilayered and sophisticated content. Many of Sáile's work and pictures seem to be fragile, melancholic and full of pain and silent sorrow. But the deeper you get to these images, the more you discover that behind this seemingly obvious curtain of visible calmness Sáile's pictures are full of hidden secrets and hints, just waiting to be carefully discovered and caressed. As she states: "(...) no image is limited to a personal context or individual feeling. Contrariwise; the intimacy which might come through or even induces and carries the images mainly establishes the starting point. It builds the origin, but evolves from there, hopes to emerge in the viewer's mind (...). Maybe it even acts as a meek representative of thoughts and feelings which might be considered to be inherent in humans, primary focusing on conflicts, wishes, disappointments, fears and contradictions, be they suppressed, obvious, conscious or unconscious."
No matter if she is acting, jazz singing, writing, drawing, painting or photographing, she always seeks for her limits, crossing boarders with a smile on her face. Sáile loves to provoke, but in a very sophisticated often fragile way, not consciously hurting but faithfully disturbing the viewer and herself by revealing deepest insights to the ones that take the time to inhale her hidden messages.
When starting her studies of Theater, Film and Media in Vienna, she discovered her first Polaroid camera in 2005 on a Viennese flea market. During the first months she immediately discovered a warm kinship with this medium, especially visible in the way she can handle expired film and push this very sensible material to yet unknown possibilities. Even if expired film is hardly predictable, she never leaves anything to chance. Too precise are her concepts and plans, often producing little Polaroid film sequences, full of multilayered and sophisticated content. Many of Sáile's work and pictures seem to be fragile, melancholic and full of pain and silent sorrow. But the deeper you get to these images, the more you discover that behind this seemingly obvious curtain of visible calmness Sáile's pictures are full of hidden secrets and hints, just waiting to be carefully discovered and caressed. As she states: "(...) no image is limited to a personal context or individual feeling. Contrariwise; the intimacy which might come through or even induces and carries the images mainly establishes the starting point. It builds the origin, but evolves from there, hopes to emerge in the viewer's mind (...). Maybe it even acts as a meek representative of thoughts and feelings which might be considered to be inherent in humans, primary focusing on conflicts, wishes, disappointments, fears and contradictions, be they suppressed, obvious, conscious or unconscious."
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NAME: Lia Sáile
LOCATION: San Pawl, Malta |
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