Goodman Gallery Johannesburg Viewing Room 24 November – 19 January 2019
Laura Lima’s Wrong Drawings are a series of works made of natural cotton often with one or more pieces of coal attached to them. Over time, these works are stained by the colour of the coal. The ‘drawings’ are all dated years from now, suggesting a future moment in time when the drawings may have reached completion.
Laura Lima (Governador Valadares, MG, Brazil, 1971) is graduated in Philosophy at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She also studied at the Visual Art School of Parque Lage. She participated in national and international exhibitions, like the 24ª and 27ª São Paulo biennales (Brazil, 1998 and 2006), 2ndand 3rd Mercosul biennales, Porto Alegre, (1999 and 2001), 11,12,13,14 and 15 Rooms in many cities, including Manchester, Sydney and Shanghai (from 2011 to 2015). She had Solo exhibitions at Casa França Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010), To Age, Chapter Art Center (Cardiff, Wales, 2004), Laura Alvim Gallery (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009), Migros Gegenwartskunst museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2013); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2014), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2014), SMK, National Galley of Denmark, Copenhagen (2015), ICA, Miami, (2016), Fondazione Prada (2018) etc. She won the Marcantonio Vilaça Premium in 2007, and was indicated for the Francophone and Hans Nefken Award in 2011. She was the recipient of the BACA (Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art in 2014). Laura is also the co-founder of the gallery A Gentil Carioca along with the artists Márcio Botner and Ernesto Neto in Rio de Janeiro.
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Laura Lima
Laura Lima’s (b. 1971, Brazil) practice employs a variety of media often incorporating living organisms and actions that are performed for long periods of time, to explore ways in which human behaviour alters our perception of the everyday.
Since letting a cow loose on Ipanema Beach in the mid-1990s, Laura Lima has continued to present a body of work consisting of what she sometimes describes as ‘images’. Consistently escaping easy classification, Laura Lima’s ‘images’ are ‘neither performance nor installation nor cinema’, but rather attempts to visually link, in concrete reality, a personal glossary that the artist has worked and reworked throughout the more than twenty years of her career. Another component of Lima’s work relates to the notion of ornamental philosophy. In projects such as Costumes, Galinhas de Gala, and Ouro Flexível, Lima directly challenges the conventional view of ornamentation as being something strange or unimportant. Lima’s work seeks to propose new understandings of accepted definitions and concepts, destabilising and subverting what is taken for granted.
Born in 1971, Laura Lima grew up in Governador Valadares in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. While still very young, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she lives and works. The artist has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s, and studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. In 1999, she founded Organism RhR (Representative hyphen Representative), where she served as its first administrator. In 2003, she co-founded A Gentil Carioca together with Ernesto Neto and Marcio Botner, a gallery headed by artists in Rio de Janeiro, where she still serves as a board member.
Laura Lima was the recipient of the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA), in 2014, and the Marcantonio Vilaça Award in 2006. The artist was also nominated for the Francophone Award in 2011 and the Han Nefkens Award in 2012.
Lima lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
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