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Laura Lima

"I am more interested in the intricate social relationships, the exchange of behaviors that in time serve to alter our perception of the quotidian, the everyday," says Brazilian-based artist Laura Lima. She is primarily concerned with the human body, using it to question our relationship to the objects, people, and society around us and raising questions about the tensions between the individual and the collective body. In her four major series—Flesh = Man/Flesh = Woman, Dimensional Tattoos, RhR, and Vivia21—Lima subjects the body to physical difficulties and strange rituals, setting up bodily transformations and confrontations between the performer and the audience.

Born 1971
Hometown Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lives and Works Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Education
Philosophy, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visual Arts School of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

SHOWS

Pace Gallery

New York
Jun 24 2016 - Aug 19 2016

Blackness in Abstraction
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Articles

Alex Gartenfeld on the Politics of Abstraction
Alex Gartenfeld on the Politics of Abstraction

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In Search of a More Equal Art History: A Q&A
In Search of a More Equal Art History: A Q&A

Curator Adrienne Edwards discusses the heady ideas animating her latest group show, which features 29 A-list artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Wangechi Mutu.

Why Won’t Artists Leave Animals Alone?
Why Won’t Artists Leave Animals Alone?

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What's Cooking at Laura Lima's Chicken Party
What's Cooking at Laura Lima's Chicken Party

The Brazilian artist is attaching carnivalesque feathers to barnyard birds for the performative commission everyone is talking about.

9 Artists to Watch This August
9 Artists to Watch This August

From a young up-and-comer making a big push at Seattle’s new tech-targeting art fair to a famed photographer tackling a classic theme of the sublime, these are the artists we’ll be tracking this month.

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