Lucia Laguna’s paintings unfold through an encounter with her surroundings — from garden views and foliage to urban fragments such as fencing, billboards, and power lines — entangled within abstract textures and networks of geometric motifs. These elements gather in carefully calibrated gestures that assemble landscapes and vistas across fractured pictorial planes. Forms appear and dissolve across the canvas, emerging through the accumulation and erasure of successive layers of paint. Like the suburban carioca views the artist observes from the windows of her studio, her compositions are driven by a wayward, palimpsestic logic. Partial images anchor the compositions among abstract passages, creating a constant tension between the sparsity and abundance of visual elements. Within this shifting structure, forms spread across the canvas like a fluid architecture, punctuated by spontaneous marks and erasures that open gaps in the painted field, like vacant lots interrupting the dense fabric of color.
Her solo exhibitions include A Propósito de duas janelas, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Life is Only Possible Reinvented, Sadie Coles, London, UK (2022); Se Hace Camino al Andar, Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (2021); Lucia Laguna, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Paisagem, Galeria Karsten Greve Cologne, Cologne, Germany (2019); Lucia Laguna: Vizinhança, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Laguna has taken part in the group shows Direito à forma, Galeria Fonte, Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil (2024); Dos brasis: arte e pensamento negro, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Crônicas Cariocas, MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2022) and the 30th Bienal de São Paulo – A iminência das poéticas, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2012).
Laguna has works in important public collections, such as Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção Banco Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil e Museu Nacional de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
