Lydia Venieri

She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts[3][circular reference].

[4][5] Venieri is well known[6] for her evocative sculpture installations which bridge mythology with current events, and for her ability to combine humor with self-reflection on human conditions in our times, through her characters that are taken from mythology, history, fairy tales and daily life.

The provocative visualizations of the universe of Venieri's work offer a Potnian statement about the world in flux in which we live.

[7][8] She has been noted as; "Lydia Venieri erects entire mythologies and symbolic systems from the already phantasmagoric world of news media.

Her stories are played out using dolls and childlike imagery to counter media dementia, in painting, drawing, photography, video and the internet.

Phallic Lotus, 2004
Madame Pompidou discussing with Lydia Venieri her sculpture installation, "La Femme Decoupee" during Carte Blanche at the Georges Pompidou Center , 1987
See No Evil, 911, 2008
Four meter tower built from iron for the Athens Olympics. here shown at Parthenis Darsilion, Athens, 2004