Mother, Motherhood & Letters to My Imaginary Child

2022

HAND BUILT CERAMIC VASES

Mother, Motherhood & Letters to My Imaginary Child shows the presumption of motherhood and criticizes the expectation for women to be self-sacrificing. The three vases symbolizing three generations; a mother, a self-individual and a child, shows vulnerability through written letters, a poem describing a relation to an absent mother and expresses a frustration with the pressure and expectations from a surrounding society.  

The techniques used is stencil work, painting by hand, stamps, decal transfers and slab work.

AVIS $ POST

2021

NEWSPAPER

BROADSHEET 51,5X35CM

Avis $ Post is a newspaper written both as NILIA´s bachelor text and as an independent art work. The paper consists of different columns and articles broadly addressing feminism and women in the art world as a continuum in it´s subjects. 

NILIA´s writing style is colloquial and witty, and through the newspapers 24 pages the reader encounters different columns such as “Letter from the editor”, an article on women in art history, an extended interview with the artist herself, a sneak peek into NILIA´s diary, cultural pages, a generous book review, topical brain teasers and a multitude of references to great artists, all with an humorous undertone.

PEOPLE ALSO ASK

2020

WOOL, DIGITAL WEAVE

105X122CM

 

The motif of the work people also ask is taken from a google search and is the algorithmic suggestions that emerge based on other searches that have been done.

The work has been exhibited together with a plant, this adds an ironic touch and makes the work interactive as it encourages the audience to touch the plant. 

people also ask has been shown at Salhus Tricotagefabrik, Bergen, Norway

EI BRA KVINNE SIVILISERER MANNEN

2020

SILK SCREEN PRINT
200X90CM

 

The motif of the work Ei bra kvinne siviliserer mannen is taken from an Instagram comment the artist was tagged in. The comment was part of an Instagram discussion regarding whether women should feel free to masturbate or not. In the comment the censored man with clarity states that women are not doing themselves any good by imitating men on the scale of nastiness. 

“Dere gjør dere selv bare en bjørnetjeneste ved å etterligne oss menn på hæslighetsskalaen!” 

The title of this work is also a quote from the tagged comment.

PANTIES

2019

THREAD, WOOL, BEADS, SEQUINS AND GLITTER

CA 30-40 PCS

panties consists of panties decorated with thread, wool, beads, sequins and glitter which symbolizes menstrual blood. With this NILIA turns something that we are raised to disgust into something beautiful and aesthetic. The work has received strong criticism and been seen as offensive when exhibited. 

panties has been shown in Bergen, Norway and in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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