About:
Luiza Anderle (she/her/they/them) is a Brazilian-born, Belleville-based since 2018, interdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, mixed media, digital formats, etc. Drawing from personal history, cultural memory, and a deep realization that the personal IS political, her work explores themes such as self-identity, feminism, generation trauma, body politics, and social hierarchies.
Luiza holds an associate degree in Photography from UNISINOS (2017) and an advanced diploma in Film and TV Production from Loyalist College (2021). Her work has been exhibited at UNISINOS and Barraco Gallery in Porto Alegre (2017), the Clube de Colagem de Curitiba (2017), and featured at Belleville Downtown DocFest - Loyalist College Shot Film Series(2020).
Outside of her artistic practice, Luiza is a wedding and portrait photographer, mother, wife, and unpredictable crafter.
Artist Statement:
I exist in dualities, and so does my work.
I move through photography, video, fabric, digital media, collage, and more – each medium offering a different way to hold the contradiction of being soft and angry, intimate and distant, joyful and aching. I don’t create from a single process or formula – I create from memory, from research, from intuition, from heartbreak. Sometimes I’m guided by a visceral urge to document an emotion as it unfolds, other times I’m months deep in research, driven by a sense of urgency or anger over a societal wound.
My art lives in that space where the personal is inescapably political. That every family album is also an archive of what gets left out. That our silence is never neutral. My work often begins in pain – rage, grief, alienation – but over time it bends toward reflection, and occasionally, toward the tender illusion of resolution.