ON NOW

About the Exhibition:

The urge to create is a compulsion for Lido, through which she delivers a continuous flow of music, performance, and visual artwork. Her work reflects the influences of her environment and the time spent on the road, or in the studio. Utilizing a variety of surfaces and material choices, each of the paintings, works on paper, and tapestries in this exhibition document this personal experience; the common thread is the reflection of self in each of the portraits. 

 

The act of creating and sharing is the impetus for her practice, and the relationship to family and her Colombian community drives her passion. The artist feels it is important that her art is accessible to everyone and as such she searches for opportunities to provide points of entry through materials, style or subject matter. “All the work created is equally important.”

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About the Artist:

Lido Pimienta is a multidisciplinary visual artist, art critic, curator and resident artist here at TAP. She is a composer and musical producer of Afro Indigenous (Wayuu) Ancestry from Colombia. Pimienta resides in London, Canada, and has been performing live and exhibiting her work worldwide since 2010. She was the first female of colour to compose an original score for the New York City Ballet Orchestra. As well, she is the first black and indigenous woman to debut as a TV host, writer and creator of a network show in Canada. LIDO TV is a variety show that explores themes like Feminism, Colonialism and Success, with hilarious twists and the inclusion of puppets!

 

Pimienta’s music and visual work navigates politics of gender, race, motherhood and the construct of the Canadian Landscape within the South American diaspora and vernacular.

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Lido Pimienta aims to create a sense of belonging and strength through diversity. Diversity as a feeling and Diversity as a verb. Born and raised in the Caribbean North Coast of Colombia, she draws and creates portraits of the familiar faces found in big crowds going about their day in a beautifully synchronized chaos of the places she calls home.  These compositions all exist in what Pimienta calls CARIBE SUBLIME, in which she identifies the Caribbean coast of Colombia and peoples from African diasporas, their cultures and identities, not as exotic but Sublime.

 

An international artistic referent in her own right, Pimienta’s point of view and resistance to follow trends or participate in a narrative that demands racialized women to be a trope, has earned Pimienta a loyal following in both the mainstream and artistic arenas. With humor, irreverence and the tenderness that comes from her singing voice, Pimienta has positioned herself as a true Renaissance Woman.

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