NILIA .
Keramikk / Leire
E-post
niliahersdal@gmail.com
Telefon
+47 97687940
Nettside
https://www.niliahersdal.comSted
Larvik
Sosiale medier
NILIA (born 1995, Norway, Larvik) is a figurative artist with a master´s degree from Bergen Academy of Art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and been shown in multiple publications with her exposing, often viewed as vulgar, art works.Working across multiple mediums NILIA addresses topics having to do with traditional expectations to gender. With a fascination for materiality she plays with contrast in the different mediums touch. The work varies in size from embroidered panties to 2-meter-long silkscreen prints. niliahersdal.com / @nilia_1
2023
The Bedside Lamp
The Bedside lamp is an ongoing project exploring womanhood, history and esthetic. It consists of a series of table lamps expressing tension around female sexuality and taboo. The table lamp has its or…
2023
STUFF I BLAME YOU FOR / DICKS
HAND BUILT CERAMICAttached to the wall using golden screws, are a dozen dicks adorn in their natural ceramic “skin tone”. Only glazed with a transparent shine, giving it a wet and in some areas a milk…
2022
Mother, Motherhood & Letters to My Imaginary Child
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 symboli…
2021
AVIS $ POST
NEWSPAPER BROADSHEET Avis $ Post are newspapers (two editions) written both as NILIA´s bachelor and master texts and independent art works. The papers consists of different columns and articles broadl…
2020
PEOPLE ALSO ASK
PEOPLE ALSO ASKThe 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 exhibite…
2020
EI BRA KVINNE SIVILISERER MANNEN
SILK SCREEN PRINTThe 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 w…
2019
PANTIES
THREAD, WOOL, BEADS, SEQUINS AND GLITTERpanties consists of panties decorated with thread, wool, beads, sequins and glitter which symbolizes menstrual blood. With this NILIA turns something that we ar…