The multi-disciplinary work of Floria Sigismondi encompasses film, video, photography and sculpture. Incorporating early film and painterly aesthetics Floria creates a hyper-surrealism based on the figure, using images derived from hallucinatory dream-states. Stills from her videos mix seamlessly with her photography series, and her photographic images translate naturally into sculptural and mixed-media forms. Poetic and often macabre, Floria's images exist in a theatre settling that is both narrative and starkly visual, with influences ranging from Hans Belmer, Francis Bacon and David Lynch to Greek Mythology. Floria explores the effects of science on our contemporary experience of the body and describes an undefined possibility for the future; with our current advances in bio-technology, it is a possibility that is frightening, complex, mysterious and compelling.
Floria Sigismondi was born in 1965 in Pescara, Italy. When she was two years old, the family emigrated to Canada, settling in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario. In 1987 she moved to Toronto to study painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art (now known as the Ontario College of Art and Design). Graduating with a photography major, she began what quickly became a successful career as a fashion photographer and within a year had expanded into directing music videos.
Her most recent projects are photography and sculpture installation exhibitions (New York and Toronto), book publications of/including her photographs (New York, Germany, and Italy) and to direct her first film. She has had extensive media coverage both nationally and internationally.
Musical artists Floria has worked with include David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Tricky, Leonard Cohen, & Bjork, among others. Her photographs have been included in group exhibitions with Cindy Sherman, Rebecca Horn, Vanessa Beecroft, Tony Oursler, Donald Lipski, Francesco Clemente, and Joel-Peter Witkin.
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