Lily Noe is an artist from Toronto, Ontario. She is living and studying in Victoria, British Columbia where she is completing her Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Victoria. Throughout her time at the University of Victoria she has exhibited her multimedia work in various group exhibitions.
I am an interdisciplinary artist working between photography, painting, sculpture and digital media. My series of paintings blur the line between sculpture and painting. My work focuses on materiality and highlighting my process of layering, extraction, and distortion. These works deal with themes of industrialization, urbanization, and architecture. Extraction and dismantling is evident in my experimentation within the paintings, causing destabilization within the work. Creating visual space within a non-objective work, creates a sense of instability in the reading of the visual information and suggests a false reality. The use of vinyl disrupts the normal read of the painting, while unifying the work.
My photographic work exists within the duality between irony and poignancy. When approaching my work with utilitarian objects, initially it is an easy read, but with time the depth of the concept and narrative reveals itself. My work displays a paradoxical effect through text. Tension is created between what is seen and what is read, the text deliberately resists a direct relationship to the location in the imagery. The viewer is prompted to search for significance where none is explicitly given, highlighting how language can impose interpretation rather than reveal it. My photography focuses on the dystopian aspects of climate change and people’s inability to acknowledge something so large impacting society.