Laura

Lima

makes

her

first

UK

solo

exhibition

at

the

Institute

of

Contemporary

Arts

(ICA),

turning

the

life

drawing

class

into

contemporary

sculpture

and

live

encounter

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), on The Mall, London, will present a new exhibition by Brazilian multidisciplinary artist Laura Lima (b. 1971, Minas Gerais), whose work has, since the mid-90s, insisted that art is not a fixed object so much as a set of conditions: bodies meeting space, institutions meeting unpredictability, viewers meeting their own role in the scene.

Lima became known for subversive artworks that test social expectations and accepted hierarchies by staging live situations in which people, objects and architecture interact in unconventional ways. From leading a cow onto Ipanema Beach in 1994 to her celebrated Balé Literal, which saw a ballet of objects dance through spaces from the streets of Rio to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona on a system of pulleys, her practice asks audiences to consider art as something that exceeds any single form: image, object, event, or performance. What matters is the charged interval between them.