20" x 36"
Flashe, acrylic, coloured pencil on canvas 2024
@tanialacaria
Tania LaCaria is an Italian-Canadian artist. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from York University (2006) and a CIDA advanced diploma in Interior Design from Sheridan College (2009). LaCaria launched her residential Interior Design consulting firm in 2005 and has since traveled the world extensively, gathering inspiration from various cultures and countries where she’s lived, namely in Latin America and South East Asia. Her travels have always influenced her work in art and design and continue to be an important source of inspiration for her. She returned to Canada and settled in Hamilton in 2016, where she currently lives and works.
Tania LaCaria’s work explores paradox - the idea that two opposing realities exist at the same time - with a focus on themes based on gender, sexuality, social structure/class systems, body politics and relationships, often presented in an Abstract Expressionist aesthetic. LaCaria’s mission in life is to form meaningful connections with others and she is grateful to do this through the conversations that are started by her art.
THE STORY:
Somatic is the latest piece in the Displacement collection.
Displacement: The act of being removed, displaced, rehoused, relocated; to result in a state of disorganization, confusion, elation, inspiration, disruption.
"Without a thought, there’s an inhale, an exhale. One count. Two. Three. Four. Easily disrupted, easily controlled.
Without a thought, there’s a beat, a filling, a releasing. The systolic and diastolic in perfect flow, mindlessly, lovingly; your own heart beating only for you; your own heart living just for you.
Without a thought to your thoughts, they can build a cage around your mind, set the bullseye for your heart and strike in the dark.
To make a home of your own heart is a choice, a meditation, a practice; the ultimate rebellion to hate; an act of pure love."
The Displacement collection explores the post-adrenaline lucidity that settles in after having been rearranged, moved, shifted, altered, either in place and body or spiritually in heart and mind, or in most cases, both.
HST: 769312810 RT0001
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