Liza Shkirando is a visual artist based in Malmö, Sweden. “My art draws from my lived experiences, exploring identity, paradox, and binaries while navigating diverse cultures, political views, sexualities, and genders. The transgressive, the queer, and the anarchist embody a moving utopian horizon, while mourning the lost culture I grew up in. Through my practice, I challenge the norms, pushing the boundaries of taste and symbolism. My work, grounded in the Monster Theory, exposes raw emotions, expressed through the body as a vessel, a prison, and medium.
At the moment, my practice explores gravity as both a physical force and an existential condition shaping bodies, materials, and identities. I approach Gravity as a co-creator, pulling, deforming, and resisting control, allowing form to emerge beyond authorship and a material force. Gravity also acts as a conceptual tool. I explore the theme of belonging and how we gravitate toward places, histories, people, (sub)cultures and identities in search of roots, while never fully arriving. Between grounding and falling, my work reflects on how identity is shaped by forces we inherit and cannot escape.”
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