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Lucas’s modest yet vastly more unheimlich incisions into the urban fabric can perhaps be thought of instead as hacks to the socio-political matrix – purposeful, disorientating attempts to puncture the apparently inescapable veneer of capitalist realism.

- Oliver Basciano, Renata Lucas, 2015

Brazilian visual artist, lives and works between the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Renata Lucas’s practice is focused on temporary interventions into built environments, pushing the boundaries of architectural and urban space, questioning about how the daily life and social behavior are affected by the spaces that surround us. Lucas seeks to breaks the standard present in everyday structures, shapes and surfaces of the built space, looking for another perspective of experience to those who try out her work.

Selected Works
  • Renata Lucas, farsa, 2019
    farsa, 2019
  • Renata Lucas, fontes e sequestros, 2015
    fontes e sequestros, 2015
  • Renata Lucas, Febre [Fever], 2004
    Febre [Fever], 2004
  • Renata Lucas, Falha, 2003
    Falha, 2003
  • Renata Lucas, Cruzamento [Crossing], 2003
    Cruzamento [Crossing], 2003
  • Renata Lucas, Mau Gênio [Bad Temper], 2002
    Mau Gênio [Bad Temper], 2002
Selected Exhibitions

Farsa | Art Unlimited | Art Basel, Suiça, 2019

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Biography

Brazilian visual artist, lives and works between the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Renata Lucas’s practice is focused on temporary interventions into built environments, pushing the boundaries of architectural and urban space, questioning about how the daily life and social behavior are affected by the spaces that surround us. Lucas seeks to breaks the standard present in everyday structures, shapes and surfaces of the built space, looking for another perspective of experience to those who try out her work.

Some of her main projects are “Andar de cima”, Casa do Povo, São Paulo (2018), “fontes e sequestros”, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin (2015) and Museu do Homem Diagonal Rio de Janeiro (2014) - Absolut Award, “[ ]”, Galley Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2014) e Secession, Vienna, Austria, “Third Time”, Peep-Hole, Milan (2011), “Cabeça e cauda de cavalo”, Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010), “Resident”, Gasworks, London (2007), “Falha”, Redcat, Los Angeles (2007), “Gentileza”, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (2005). The projects and works within collective shows are “aqui”, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo (2017), “Avenida Paulista”, MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2017), “United States of Latin America”, MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2015), “o interior está no exterior”, Projeto Casa de Vidro, Instituto Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo (2013), “One on One” na Kunstwerk, Berlin (2012), “Planos de fuga - Uma exposição em obras”, CCBB São Paulo (2012), dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel (2012), 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), “Tiempo como materia”, MACBA, Barcelona (2009), “Venice suitcase”, 53th Venice Biennial (2009), “Barulho de Fundo” e “Matemática rápida”, 27a Bienal de São Paulo (2006).

 

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