#Lina Iris Viktor

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Lina Iris Viktor

Some are Born to Endless Night—Dark Matter, 2019

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Lina Iris Viktor, Eleventh, 2018 © 2018. Courtesy the Artist

Lina Iris Viktor (born 1987) is a British-Liberian visual artist based in New York. The New York Times described her paintings as "queenly self-portraits with a futuristic edge". The artist is represented by Pilar Corrias, London. Via Wikipedia

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🎨: Lina Iris Viktor "A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred."

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Who: Savannah Lee Smith as Monet de Haan What: Dior Lady Dior Bag Art Edition 6th by Lina Iris Viktor - Sold Out Where: 2x02 “Guess Who’s Coming at Dinner”

Worn with: Veronica Beard blazer, Frame shirt, Vivienne Westwood earrings and Gianvito Rossi mules

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two shades of red...

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“The title of my current exhibition is an ode to the crazy eclipse cycle we've been undergoing - especially you guys in the Americas that witnessed and are deeply feeling the results of the April 8th total solar eclipse. Really feeling it.

The exhibition title derives from ancient astrological ideas of the war between light and dark during an eclipse - an event that has been an omen for most cultures from ancient times. It was said that there was a war between the solar angels & the lunar lords when from our perspective the moon completely covers the sun in perfect unison creating minutes of darkness upon our planet - pure magic that continues to awe us til

today.

This body of work speaks to a multiplicity of ideas... the cosmological one being only the tip of the iceberg.”

Lina Iris Viktor - "Solar Angels & Lunar Lords"

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Elegy by ghost lingering

Fandom is Dead Boy Detectives and audio is is a slightly edited version of the poem Elegy by Aracelis Girmay & read by Denice Frohman. GFX in this vid use artwork by the following artists: Fuku Akino, Chiho Aoshima, Hina Aoyama, Kinuko Emi, Chie Fueki, Lois Mailou Jones, Yayoi Kusama, Tamara Natalie Madden, Amy Sherald, Alma Thomas, & Lina Iris Viktor.

Originally made for the 2024 Fall Equinox Exchange for Vialana.

More info available on AO3 or Dreamwidth.

ETA: if you see me messing around with tags, no you didn't. I've been having issues posting vids to the DBDA tags so I'm trying to troubleshoot.

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things to see and do in London?

My big London guide is here!

Current exhibitions and events on my list include:

A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang — The British Library

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words — The British Library

Looks Delicious! Exploring Japan’s food replica culture — Japan House

Lina Iris Viktor: Mythic Time / Tens of Thousands of Rememberings — Sir John Soane’s Museum

War rugs: Afghanistan's knotted history — The British Museum

Silk Roads — The British Museum

Naomi in Fashion — The V&A

The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence — The V&A

Celebrating Wool — Fashion & Textile Museum

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London — Fashion & Textile Museum

Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo — The Wallace Collection

Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King — The Wallace Collection

Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle — The Wallace Collection

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Constellations III by Lina Iris Viktor

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Lina Iris Viktor is a British-Liberian visual artist based in New York. The New York Times described her paintings as "queenly self-portraits with a futuristic edge".

Lina Iris Viktor was born in 1987 in the U.K. to parents from Liberia, West Africa. She studied film at Sarah Lawrence College and photography and design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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Vía THE OTHER SIDE OF ART Lisa Lee

Lina Iris Viktor-Constellations IV

24k gold, acrylic, varnish on canvas

Liberian-British artist b. 1987

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"Viktor sees gold as a 'conduit between worlds', and it is used symbolically in her work to reference both the richness of African culture and the use of the precious metal for ornamentation by ancient civilizations throughout history. By contrast, the black in her work argues against history—for Viktor, it is not a color characterized by absence, but instead by presence. Black is a combination of all colors, and must, therefore, be the richest and most vibrant of them all."

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#BlackHistoryMonth

Syzygy (2015) by British-Liberian visual artist, Lina Iris Viktor, (born in 1987) who is based in New York.

Pure 24k gold, acrylic paint and print on matte canvas

102 x 132 cm, 40 x 52 in approx

Syzygy is the astronomical term for the exact alignment of the sun, moon, and the earth in a straight line.

Lina Iris Viktor's works have been described as 'queenly self-portraits with a futuristic edge'. She works with a restricted colour palette and the age-old technique of gilding with 24-karat gold.

Using painting, sculpture, performance, installations and photography, she draws on artistic traditions and visual influences from African symbolism and cosmology spanning from the present-day Dogon people of Mali to ancient Egypt, classical mythology and astronomy, and European portraiture. Viktor says: ‘My interest is to work with patterns, because I believe that the universe is governed by pattern systems, those that are so present in African textiles, which are communicated through inferred knowledge, rather than literal knowledge.’ For Viktor, gold is both substance and symbol, a conduit to spiritual transcendence. The opulent ultramarine blue emulates the ‘blue room’ in the artist's former studio.

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Lina Iris Viktor - Solar Angels & Lunar Lords @ Pillar Corrias, London

- because details really matter

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Who: Grace Duah as Shan Barnes What: Lady Dior Bag Art Edition 6th 2021 by Lina Iris Viktor - N/A Where: 2x01 “Deb Brawl in a Blue Dress”

Worn with: Kimberly Goldson dress