Representative work by Liliana Porter
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Artist

Liliana Porter

b. 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine-American

  • Ibero-American University

Liliana Porter has built a poetic conceptual practice from tiny figurines, found objects, photography and video. Her works stage absurd scenes in which miniature characters appear to perform impossible tasks against empty white space.

Photography; installation; video; printmaking

Major Works

  • 2008The Task
  • 2008The Intruder
  • 2000sForced Labor series
  • 2014Man with Axe
  • 2010sThe Repairman
  • 1968Wrinkle
  • 2000sDialogue with Mickey
  • 2000sThe Gardener
  • 2010sThem with Nobody
  • 2000s onwardSituations

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