Lior Tamim, BFA Photography Senior

Lior Tamim, BFA Photography Senior at Parsons, is an artist-in-residence at Triangle Arts Association in New York City. He will be in residence there in November and December, working on his site-specific installation work. Tamim incorporates a wide variety of media including photography, video, performance, painting, and sculpture. Join him and fellow artist resident Pia Mannikko for their opening event on Thursday, 12/3.

Building Bodies: Pia Männikkö & Lior Tamim Thursday December 3 from 6–9 pm
Triangle Arts Association
20 Jay Street, Suite 318
Brooklyn, NY, 11201

Image: Pia Männikkö and Lior Tamim, Building Bodies, 2015.

Triangle artists-in-residence Pia Männikkö and Lior Tamim invite you into their studios to see works-in-progress that explore the limits of the human form.

Pia Männikkö constructs installations and photo collages that document and abstract the body as organic entity. Her practice explores the presence of the physical form as well as its interaction with the surrounding environment. Tamim transforms his studio into a vibrant red cube which serves as backdrop for an ongoing performance of the artist as body-builder. His collaborative and sitespecific installation negotiates complex questions about masculinity and power. Realized during their residencies at Triangle, the works on view by these two artists ask us to ultimately consider the body as malleable material. Pia Männikkö graduated from the Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art Department in 2010 and earned an MFA in Sculpture from the Finnish Art Academy in 2014. Her materials and methods are diverse—from everyday objects, textiles and clay to photography and video. Männikkö´s installations and sculptures have been presented in various exhibitions and art happenings, among others Mänttä Art Festival and Rovaniemi Art Museum in Finland, OpenART biennale in Örebro, Sweden, Armory Gallery in Sydney, Australia, Kraftwerk der Rathenau-Hallen, Berlin, Germany and The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland. Männikkö is an artist-in-residence at Triangle Arts Association through the support of the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.

Lior Tamim is a visual artist living and working in New York City whose projects are installation-based and site specific, as each dictate unique rules and methodologies. He incorporates a wide variety of media including photography, video, performance, painting, and sculpture. He studied art and photography at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem and at Parsons, The New School, New York. Tamim is currently training to be a body-builder while he is in residence at Triangle from November—December 2015.

Triangle Arts Association is a NYC based non-profit arts organization founded in 1982 to support international and U.S. artists. Triangle’s core initiatives: Residencies, Workshops and Public Programs are centered on dialogue, experimentation and the creation of community around art. www.triangle-arts-association.org

For more information, visit TAA’s website.