Luzia Simons was born in 1953 in Quixadá, Ceará, Brazil. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Luzia Simons has spent the last few years investigating floral iconography and adopting an artistic stance on the subject. For example on tulips, whose history can be regarded as a symbol of cultural transmission. After all, as well as transferring goods and technologies, today’s increasingly global market economy also transfers cultures and the meanings assigned to them. The fact that tulips represent life and love in the Persian, Turkish and Iraqi cultures may seem old-fashioned in Europe, but is all the more significant when soldiers killed in the Iran/Iraq war are symbolized there by fields full of red tulips. Luzia Simons’ artistic reading of the transit discourse broaches the issue of shifting locations and meanings with regard to social and individual identity.
Simons’ works are represented in international collections such as Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, Germany; Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba; Kunsthalle Emden, Germany; Graphic Collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; Fonds National d Art Contemporain, Paris-Ile de France, France; Pirelli/Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil.
