Pia Jaime – Wall of Success

Pia Jamie is a multidisciplinary artist working with drawing, photography, printmaking, and building materials. Originally from Formosa, she holds a First-Class Degree in Fine Arts and has previously worked in theatre, dance, and set design.

Influenced by her Latin American heritage, her work ranges in scale from intimate pieces to large installations. It is anchored in the magical realism of literature and inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s writings, particularly his view of perception as an ongoing dialogue between the lived body and the world it experiences.

“My obsession lies within the emotional energy transferred or attached onto and into an object, idea or person in relationship to our environment, how we care for it, ourselves and each other”

2025 Achievement

Flow Group Show

Pia’s work “Presence” was selected to be part of a group show inspired by Zigmunt Bauman’s thoughts on Liquid Modernity, and curated by Christie Swallow at Fleet Studios. About the work, Pia stated:

“Presence is a still from a video (I want to feel at home) in which I used my local river water imagery as a metaphor for identity in motion. As an immigrant my body and mind are in a continuous state of transformation, echoing Bauman’s idea that permanence is no longer the norm. Moving between geographies, languages, and identities mirrors the “untied bonds” Bauman describes. Family, community, and cultural ties may be weakened and in trying to adapt or “flow,” you might feel the disintegration of identity, especially when society expects you to fit into a mold that erases your complexity,hence the anonymous body on the table. The still was printed on silk, which undulated gently with the movement of people in the room.”

2-Year Scholarship at The Alternative Processes Academy

“My practice is deeply rooted in experimental, analog techniques — with extensive experience in pinhole photography, Chemigrams, and Cyanotypes. The scholarship would enable me to develop a new body of work that investigates the intersection between the sensory environment and photographic experimentation. My goal is to produce a series for exhibition that not only showcases the visual and tactile possibilities of environmentally conscious processes but also invites viewers into a conversation about sustainability in artmaking.”