Lidzie Alvisa

Díptico, from the series Girasoles, 2005

Digital print, 70 x 50 cm.


  • Lidzie Alvisa is without doubt one of the most outstanding female Cuban artist. She connects with the tradition of women artists such as Marina Abramovic, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin, who have cultivated, in very recent history, a treatise that breaks the rules of the feminine, the body and sexuality.
  • In the contemporary visual artist Lidzie Alvisa’s work there is always a concern regarding time and its relation with the essence of things and the individual.

[…] In the Cuban contemporary visual artist Lidzie Alvisa’s work there is always a concern regarding time and its relation with the essence of things and the individual. In Dípticos, for example, the interrelation of two moments speaks of the distorting power of the passing of time, in which the nature of the origin is altered, at times remaining as a trace in the withering of flowers. This artwork shows a dialectic of life (between birth and death) rather than an establishment of binary contents or a duel of contrasting categories […]. 1

 

1. Darys J. Vázquez, “Dialogues from Within.”