Laura Lima: The Inverse

ICA Miami is pleased to present the debut American solo museum exhibition for Brazilian artist Laura Lima. A conceptual artist who inverts the mediums of performance, sculpture and painting, Lima uses the human body and costume to explore perception, social relationships, and everyday human behaviors. Lima subjects the body to juxtapositions with objects and strange rituals that instigate new modes of interaction between the work and viewer.

Laura Lima (b. 1971) has had solo exhibitions at the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Migros Museum, Zurich; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Performa 15, New York. Museu do Estado. Recife-PE. Brazil; Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Lima. Her work has been included in major group shows at theSerpentine, London, Beyeler foundation, Basel. 2006 Sao Paulo Biennale, and Frieze,London, UK.

Lima is a co-founder and partner of the Galleria A Gentil Carioca in downtown Rio de Janeiro with Marcio Botner and Ernesto Neto. She graduated in Philosophy at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and studied at the Visual Arts School of Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. The artist lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.