Since the 90s, Laura Lima presents her work using living beings (humans, animals or plants) as material, building unexpected relations with the space and the architecture. The artist is aiming to defy convenient concepts within the art vocabulary, such as performance or installation, for instance. The way forms of human behaviour react to the complexity of social relations is as well object of the artist’s fascination, provoking a continuous exercise in constructing a glossary within the work itself.
Recent solo shows include: ‘Taylor Shop’, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo (2018); ‘Cavalo come Rei’, Prada Foundation, Milan (2018); ‘The Inverse’, ICA Miami (2016); Ágrafo, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2015); ‘El Mago Desnudo’, MAMBA Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2015); ‘The Naked Magicien’, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2015) and Bonnierskonsthall, Stockholm (2014); ‘The fifth floor’, Laureate Bonnefanten, Maastricht (2014); ‘The Abstraction’, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö (2014); ‘Bar/Restaurante’, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2013); Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2011).
Recent group exhibitions include: Witch Hunt, at Hammer Museum (2021)Busan Biennial (2018); ‘Por aqui é tudo novo’, Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho (2016); Trienal de Aichi, Toyohashi (2016); ‘Performa 15’, New York (2015); ‘15 Rooms’, Long Museum, Shanghai (2015); ‘Encruzilhada’, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (2015); ‘140 Caracteres’, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2014); ‘Por amor a la disidencia’, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Cidade do México (2013); ‘Circuitos Cruzados – Centre Pompidou meets MAM’, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2013); Ruhrtriennale, Essen (2012); 11a Bienal de Lyon (2011).
Her work is part of the following collections: CACI Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brazil; MAM Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.