Artist Kledia Spiro's still from her performance "Oozing"
Kledia Spiro is a multimedia, interdisciplinary artist, creating immersive videos, performances, and installations. Spiro was born in Albania and trained with an Olympic weightlifting team. She uses strength and weightlifting as a symbol of survival, empowerment, and celebration in her art practice. Weightlifting becomes a vehicle for discussing women’s role in society, immigration, and times of war.
Spiro explores the connection between strength, weightlifting, and daily life as a new celebratory ritual for understanding the relationship between the artist and the audience, as well as the present and the past. By experimenting with indeterminate methods, Spiro wants the viewer to access the otherwise inaccessible spaces. Her works are based on Freudian and Piagetian behavioral concepts: visions that reflect psycho-analysis, behavioral psychology, and a sensation of indisputability, combined with details of odd, eccentric, absurd, totemic, and humoristic elements. By questioning where one is and the concept of movement, Spiro investigates the manipulation of lifting objects overhead and its effects.
Spiro’s work has been featured internationally at Stratosphere, NFT Art Week Beijing, in addition to national exhibitions at the SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Satellite Art Show, Miami Art Week, and the ProArts Gallery in Oakland, California. Spiro’s video-performance “Which Way” was featured in Times Square for NFT.NYC 2023. Spiro has performed in New York at the Queens Museum, Clio Art Fair, Armory Week, Grace Exhibition Space, Rosekill, Panoply Performance Lab, Java Studios and Le Petit Versailles. Her Boston performances include the Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mobius, Piano Craft Gallery, Bau Haus, Tufts University, and the New England Conservatory.
Spiro received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She also received the Museum Studies Certificate from Tufts University in 2015. She has a BA from the College of the Holy Cross in Studio Art and Psychology with an Asian Studies Concentration. In 2018, Spiro was the Keynote Speaker at the Centennial New England Museum Association Conference. In 2017, she was selected as a TEDx speaker and performer for “The Pursuit of Creativity.” In 2016, Spiro was the video director that received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for the Mayors Art Challenge. In 2015, Spiro was also selected as one of five artists for the New England Media Symposium on the panel "Gender, Technology and Media: Hypothetical Schematics'' at Emerson College. In 2014, Spiro was appointed as the MFA Graduate representative for Exhibitions at the SMFA. Spiro was a visiting artist and guest lecturer at the College of the Holy Cross in 2014. She is currently a Post Graduate Teaching Fellow at Northeastern University and Assistant Professor of Design at Northeastern University London.
Artist Kledia Spiro's interactive performance at Clio Art Fair's 17th edition
Kledia has performed in the past Clio Art Fair's 17th edition special section titled
Sugar Wrapped: A Journey Into #Transhumanism in September 5-8, 2024. Here is our short interview with her!
Kledia, can you please describe your art in four words?
Interdisciplinary, empowerment, immersive, conceptual
What inspires your art?
My family, my country of origin, women's strength
How would you describe your experience at Clio Art Fair?
I had an amazing time at Clio Art Fair. There was such a big crowed that was very engage with my performance the whole time. The work could only succeed due to the people that Clio drew in. I am grateful to have been an exhibiting and performing artist.
Kledia Spiro, Press and Sniff, 2024
Performed as part of a special section titled
Sugar Wrapped: A Journey Into #Transhumanism
An aesthetic contemplation of the evolving interplay
between human identity, technology, and creativity
Showcased at Clio Art Fair, September 5-8, 2024
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