ARTISTS
Laura Lima: How To Eat The Sun and The Moon
Goodman Gallery is delighted to present Rio de Janeiro-based artist Laura Lima’s first major solo exhibition on the continent, How To Eat The Sun and The Moon. Featuring a series of new, large-scale textile pieces, the show explores Brazilian mythology, nature and the transformation of materials over time.
Over the past two decades, Lima has worked across multiple media including installation, cinema, textiles, and notions of performativity, always addressing philosophical aspects to offer an ongoing interrogation of conceptual frameworks people use to make sense of the world. Her practice also intimately engages with materiality, often inviting organic matter, degradation and the passage of time as agents in the formation and long-term existence of her works. The Johannesburg show follows Laura Lima: Balè Literal, a major solo exhibition held at MACBA in 2023 which will tour to MAM Rio de Janeiro in May 2025. A dedicated publication is due to be published later in the year by Cobogó.
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