2026
Silkscreen on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Regular White
26 x 35 cm
Edition of 15, signed and numbered on the reverse
Unframed
This silkscreen print by Laura Lima is launched to coincide with the solo exhibition The Drawing Drawing at the ICA (27 January – 29 March 2026). The exhibition brings together a concise selection of works spanning Lima’s evolving practice to the present day. The exhibition shares its title with a major site-specific commission that hijacks the conventions of a life drawing class. In Lima’s version, in which a life model and artists slowly and unpredictably orbit one another on mechanised platforms, the positions of subject and object, and accompanying ideas of faithful representation and mastery, are put into question.
Bio
Born in 1971, Laura Lima grew up in Brazil’s countryside region of Governador Valadares. While still very young, Lima moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she is currently based. The artist received a BA in Philosophy from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s and also studied art the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. In 1999, she founded the Organism RhR (Representative hyphen Representative) and served as its first bureaucratic administrator. As such, Lima created a glossary and an archive of the activities of the group, including ideas such as a philosophy of nothing, the non-functional, emptiness, and failure.
Lima’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in institutions around the world such as MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain (2023); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2018); Pinacoteca (Octágono), São Paulo (2018); ICA Miami (2016); SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2015); Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015); Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza, Brazil (2015); Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2014); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2013); Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zürich (2013); MUAC, Mexico City (2013); Foundation Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro (2012); among others. Lima presented a major outdoor installation in the 2025 Boston Public Art Triennial. Her works are held in numerous important collections, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Instituto Inhotim, Brazil; Modern Art Museum of São Paulo; Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden; Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland; Zabludowicz Collection; and the Bonnefantenmuseum, The Netherlands, among others.
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