Through the use of various artistic languages—painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, collective actions, community projects, video, among others—Libia Posada has developed a body of work that straddles the boundaries between art, medicine, politics, and society.

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Influenced by her medical training, her work nevertheless goes beyond a fascination with the purely organic or biological and its possible representations, to speak of the body as a site for the staging of human experience, both individual and collective; a territory in close relation to the geographical one, passing through clinical spaces where it becomes individualized, like a “patient,” revealing the signs and narrating the symptoms of a broader body: collective, historical, political, and social.

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Throughout her career, Libia Posada has employed signs and symbols, as well as texts, images, objects, materials, and equipment from the medical repertoire, to develop a series of specialized codes and representations. With them, she transforms the museum space into environments that are scientific, cold, rational, and aseptic, activating in the visitor—the patient—a cascade of sensory, perceptive, emotional, psychic, and physical memories linked to the human experience of hospital spaces. In turn, these situations foster profound reflections on a range of issues, at the center of which lies the very notion of humanity.