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Artist Statement
Luíza works on visual narratives that distill the ties of daily life, the imminence of ruination, and memory to the structures of coloniality. Her works are often an articulation of writing, sculptural objects, and the moving image, which in dialogue result in installations with varying formats. Her recent works invite the viewer to consider the recent rise of authoritarianism in Brazil as a renewal of the country’s past, and as a historic practice not only operative in the sphere of the state, but also ingrained in social relations.
In terms of work process, Luíza’s creative production is informed by a dedication to history and studies on decoloniality, and often by her personal relationship to the matter brought up by the work. The materiality of her practice commonly originates from an associative process combined with the tracing of the history (production, use, common given meaning) of the materials she works with: an attempt to decode and hereafter recode the signification of such day-to-day materials.
Bio
Luíza Bastos Lages is a lesbian transdisciplinary artist raised in Itabirito, Brazil, originally the territory of the Guarachués people. She works on visual narratives that distill the ties of daily life, the imminence of ruination, and memory to the structures of coloniality.
Luíza’s work was featured in collective exhibitions such as “who feels at home in the visible world”- online, (Lavada pelo Mar, 2020), “Tempo falacioso; Superimposiciones Botánicas” at Sin Cinta Previa, Chicago (Paisagens Ficcionais, 2020), “Define Abolition” at the The Annex at Harvard University, Cambridge, and solo installations in public spaces in Belo Horizonte and Itabirito, Brazil (Atados, 2019 and Paisagens Ficcionais, 2017).
Luíza was a MIT Transmedia Story Telling resident and fellow (2020), she holds a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020), and a professional degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2013). Her awards include Council for the Arts at MIT grant, and Enterprise Poets Prize for Imagining a Future – Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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The 2021-22 season of GEEX Talks is supported by the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Bullseye Glass Co., Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, His Glassworks, Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Secret Goblet Society, and Wet Dog Glass.
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