In Lucia Laguna’s oeuvre, recognizable elements – foliage, furniture, food, animals – lie among juxtaposed lines and colors, in calculated gestures composing landscapes and interiors in fractured planes. The forms that fill her canvases seem incomplete, arising out of the accumulation and erasure of layers of paint. Like the suburban carioca views that the artist sees from the windows of her studio in São Francisco Xavier, in Northern Rio de Janeiro, her work is imbued with a constructive impulse that makes use of straight lines and right angles, which she associates with the city’s avenues and highways. Her forms spread out in a fluent architecture, between spontaneous interferences and erasures like empty lots among the fields of color.
Her solo exhibitions include 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.
