Lidia Vives

LIDIA VIVES (Lleida, 1991)
"Signing " (Self-portrait).2024
Fine art print on ecological paper Hahnemühle Bamboo Natural Line, 290 g/m2 (90% bamboo, 10% cotton).
Print run 2/7.
Framed in a simple black frame with glass.
Delivered signed and numbered, as well as with certificate of authenticity.
Shipment with professional packaging to protect the work from possible risks during transport. Includes cotton gloves to handle the work and a signed postcard with a personal note from the author.
Exhibitions in which this work has participated: - Dear Diary (solo exhibition), Galeria Espai Cavallers, Lleida (Spain) - 2024- Affordable Art Fair Vienna (Austria) - 2025
Measurements: 63 x 42cm

Signing is a piece belonging to the series "The Signature", where Lídia Vives delves into the relationship between identity, vulnerability and self-defense. Through the self-portrait, the artist poses a reflection on the armor that we adopt throughout life - not always physical, but equally heavy. The work has been intervened with a digital drawing elaborated by the author herself, in which a baroque armor of vegetal inspiration is superimposed on her body. This symbolic element coexists with cobalt blue floral tattoos and a small red heart under the eye, elements that dialogue between the ornamental and the emotional. The handwritten text in the upper corner reinforces the intimate charge of the image: "Do you remember when you put on the armor for the first time?
the first time? I don't". As is often the case in her work, Lídia combines visual language with personal narratives, addressing themes such as violence, resistance, social judgment or empowerment. Signing
not only speaks of protection, but also of the wear and tear involved in sustaining that armor day after day.
day after day.

Lídia Vives is a photographer and visual artist based in Barcelona. She has exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Louvre and the Saatchi Gallery, and has been published in media such as Vogue Italia or Esquire. Her work mixes pop aesthetics, social criticism and pictorial references to create powerful, beautiful and uncomfortable images at the same time. Other exhibitions (selection): 2016- Sex Series, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Solo); 2015 - Shared Experience, Inqubator Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (Collective), Evasiones, Galería Léucade, Múrcia, Spain (Collective), El + de la fotografia, Cercle de Belles Arts, Lleida, Spain (Collective). 2014 - Wonderland, Espacio Luvitien, Teruel, Spain (Solo). 2013 - Wonderland, Casa de la Cultura de Andorra, Teruel, Spain (Solo). 2012 - Lidia's Shots, Funatic, Lleida, Spain (Solo). Her work has appeared in numerous publications.