Lina Iris Viktor, recent works.
Statement
Lina Iris Viktor chooses to work in a strictly limited world – it is a mythical one of her creation existing within the zen-influenced, blurred lines of the real and the imagined. The world she imagines is perfectly curated, puristic, and minimalist – it tends to cancel out materiality, to transfer it to the realm of the spiritual. Governed by a purist color palette, her work considers the natural laws, hermetic philosophies, mathematic & scientific principles, and seeks to instill a divine order to all around her.
Working across multiple mediums, she adheres to the colour palette of blue, black, white and 24-karat gold to create paintings, sculptures, photography, performance works, and installations. Viktor’s work fuses apparent contradictions, synchronizing the monumental and the minuscule, decadent and the minimal, the spectacular and the invisible, seeking to heighten the experience of the spectator. Her self-portraits aim to transform the artist, to transmute her into being one with the environment, one with the elements, one with the concepts present in her work.
It is evident through her process of creation and self-documentation that Viktor spends time monitoring the intention of her art, and takes the responsibility of directing her ever-evolving public role as an artist.
BIOGRAPHY
Lina Viktor is a conceptual artist and painter. She lives and works itinerantly between New York, London, and Geneva.
Raised in London to Liberian parents, she traveled extensively in her youth also living in Johannesburg, South Africa for many years. Her multi-disciplinary approach to her work is informed by a background in film which she studied at Sarah Lawrence College, and her continued studies within photography & design at The School of Visual Arts, along with years of performance as a teenager. Viktor creates her own mythology as a painter, sculptor, photographer, and performance artist.
Viktor has exhibited alongside works by Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Sachs, Ryan McGinley, & Peter Beard. (copyright text and images: the artist)