Laura Lima

O Puxador . 2011



Biennale de Lyon . Bonnierskonsthall

In the work of Brazilian artist Laura Lima, the body “retains a firm grip on the imagination”. It is a body exposed to interpretation, pushed to its limits, “condemned to endless repetitions or impeded and interrupted gestures”. Lima articulates connections and obstacles between bodies and objects. In her work, the body is undifferentiated from things. It is a mouldable object; it is flesh. It has no specific character or identity, but is everyone, condemned obsessively to repeat situations and gestures as if it had no other purpose than to underline the impossibility of transcendence, the failure of communication.
Ana Sanchez-Colberg