Ideógrafo (TV Series)

Lia do Rio (2008)

Lia do Rio: Lia do Rio

Quotes 

• Lia do Rio : When I got into art I started to speak, I think it's my language

  Lia do Rio : Every being is sensitive

  Lia do Rio : I believe that every human being can be an artist if he wants to, it's a matter of perceiving a new aspect of the same things that are there

  Lia do Rio : It is the artist's work that speaks, we do not speak with words but with work

  Lia do Rio : The window itself is a separation between inside and outside

  Lia do Rio : My work feels performative when people see me

  Lia do Rio : From the beginning, I felt that my works had to do with the places where they were inserted; it's a matter of going out normally not looking for a place but a place that calls to us

  Lia do Rio : I use several languages but it is the work itself that makes me choose the language in which it should be done

  Lia do Rio : When I find material that interests me, or an interesting situation occurs, I keep that material; and I think that it is somehow stored and, at a given moment, it flows into that it has to be done

  Lia do Rio : This already generated a question to myself: what is it that selects a certain image in the mind?

  Lia do Rio : It looks like magic but it's not.

  Lia do Rio : The work of art itself is a questioning of something perceived and that through the work you end up talking in some way

  Lia do Rio : It's the unknowns of the world that attract me

  Lia do Rio : What makes an object a work of art? Is it the idea, is it the concept that is there? Is it the difference? I don't know

  Lia do Rio : One thing I realized, after many works, is that time, or timelessness, or timelessness, is always there; this issue of time appears; I think what is time? is the unknown: what is he? It's not clock time I'm talking about, it's eternal time, it's becoming time

  Lia do Rio : I don't work with memory, materials often carry a memory

  Lia do Rio : It's not the artist's job to go there and think, it's what happens too

  Lia do Rio : It seems that the artist is a person who is out of the air, isn't he, he is super connected in another dimension, in other things that are not the things that people are normally connected to

  Lia do Rio : So, it's the resizing of our certainties, that's what I consider a work of art, that's what it is

  Lia do Rio : Functionality, practicality, it doesn't have it, but it's thinking, it's a way of thinking

  Lia do Rio : It is the desire of human beings to know, to know, perhaps, the whole