Lido Pimienta: Love and Resistance showcases a striking new series of ceramics by London-based artist and internationally acclaimed musician Lido Pimienta. Known for her genre-defying sound and bold self-expression, Pimienta here turns to clay to explore themes of identity, solidarity, and resistance.
Through a vibrant series of handcrafted plates, bowls, and discs, Pimienta honours the people who raised her–mothers, grandmothers, and community members from the Caribbean North Coast of Colombia. Each face is unapologetically Black and Indigenous, rendered in vivid colour and expressive detail. Some adorned with bright fringing known as borlas Wayuu, Pimienta’s works challenge the colonial gaze and celebrate diasporic culture as layered, vital, and deeply personal.
More than vessels, Pimienta’s ceramics are storytellers. Together, they invite viewers to look closer, to connect across time and experience, and to reconsider the systems that have long separated art from craft and undervalued community-based creation. Rooted in centuries of pre-Colombian tradition and shaped by the artist’s own unique visual language, these portraits blend history, care, and innovation.
