Georgia Lale
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Why didn’t you speak up sooner?
You were asking for it!
Why did you stay?
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Floating [triptych] #1
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STATEMENT
I conceive my art as a historical report that documents, through visual works, both my personal life and our times. My work explores narratives of chronic illness and forced migration through an interpersonal perspective. Through my work, I aim to poetically restore the missing pieces of my family’s cultural confusion that occurred in 1922, by forced migration and displacement from Asia Minor to Greece. Since my cancer diagnosis, I have been producing a body of work that addresses the social invisibility, stigma, ostracism and trauma that patients experience during their diagnosis, treatment and recovery. The palette of my medium is characterized by the conceptual minimalist use of emotionally charged objects such as, life vests, emergency heat blankets and hospital gowns. I use performance, public interventions, sculpture and language in order to advocate for social justice and the right to universal healthcare.
BIO
Georgia Lale is a Greek visual artist with Anatolian heritage, based in NYC. Through her multidisciplinary practice, Lale explores the human body’s blueprint on the social and political realm of modern society and advocates for accessible healthcare and gender equality. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2016) as a Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation scholar and their BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece (2013). Her work has been featured in major art festivals, such as the WoW festival (Women of the World) in Athens at SNFCC, Greece (2025), A.I.R. Gallery Biennial, “Friend of the Artist” in NYC (2023), Art in Odd Places in NYC (2021), the Venice International Performance Art Week in Italy (2020), the Art and Social Activism Festival “The Immigrants Artist Biennial Soft Launch”, NYC (2019) and the Brussels Nuit Nlanche Festival, Belgium (2016). She has been a panel member of academic conferences organized by the Dedalus Foundation, the MoMA Archives, the Yale History of Art Modernist Forum and the Yale School of Management. Her #OrangeVest performance was presented at the Greek Pavilion of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016). Her solo show “Neighborhood Guilt” at the Consulate General of Greece in NY (2023) was censored by the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs.