ARTIST STATEMENT
My work uses a trans perspective to explore relationships between land and body, including the places where they blur into one another. It utilizes a mix of printmaking, sculpture, fiber, film, creative writing, and found material. It often includes collaboration with queer family, friends, lovers, flora, and fauna.
I am interested in body/land as sites of transformation, fluidity, porosity, and wonderful monstrosity. I move from a place in which the everyday becomes miraculous, and actions become rituals, where horror and wonder hold hands. I seek spaces that embrace the grotesque as beautiful, where body/land refuses to be governed.
I am interested in body/land as sites of transformation, fluidity, porosity, and wonderful monstrosity. I move from a place in which the everyday becomes miraculous, and actions become rituals, where horror and wonder hold hands. I seek spaces that embrace the grotesque as beautiful, where body/land refuses to be governed.
BIO
Lex Lilia (Morris-Wright) is an emerging writer and mixed-media artist currently living in Boston, MA. They were born in New Mexico and raised by a queer family of human, plant, and animal creators. Then they moved to Boston, MA to continue their study of art and people at Tufts University where they received a BFA and a BA. They have exhibited work in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM; Boston, MA; and New York City, NY. Their work has won awards from the National Scholastic Art Awards and the School for the Museum of Fine Art Print and Paper Department. Lex is a neurodivergent creature and a night-shift grocery worker.
