Luciana Paiva
Luciana Paiva is an artist from Brasília, Brazil. In her work, she explores the visual and material aspects of text, the illegibility and structure of language, as well as geometric abstraction.
She uses a variety of techniques and materials, particularly paper and metal, to
reconfigure elements of the urban landscape, architecture, and the codes of writing. She also works as a curator and is one of the co-founders and artist-directors of Pé Vermelho Espaço Contemporâneo in Planaltina, Federal District, which was founded in 2017.
He holds a Doctor of Fine Arts degree (PPGAV/UnB, 2018) and completed the Advanced Studies Program at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro (2011). He participated in the Rumos Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Program 2011–2013, among other awards, such as the II Mestre D’Armas Salon (2019) and the 29th
Exhibition Program of the São Paulo Cultural Center.
His works are part of public collections such as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, the City Art Collection – CCSP (SP),
the Anápolis Art Museum – MAPA (GO), and the Vera Chaves Barcellos Foundation (RS).
The Voo series draws inspiration from Alfredo Volpi’s paintings titled “Ogivas,” using their pictorial structure as a starting point to unfold them in space.
In these paintings by Volpi, created beginning in the 1970s, the repetition and variation of triangular forms create visual tension; in the Voo series, these relationships shift from the two-dimensional plane to a three-dimensional experience.
Each work in the series consists of three two-dimensional metal elements, in two or three colors, arranged to create a spatial configuration in which two pieces are mounted on the wall and a third is suspended between them, in a transverse position. Alternatively, the three pieces may be suspended around a single axis.
The alternating triangular cutouts across the different sections create a system of correspondences and dissonances that is activated as the viewer moves. The work is not revealed from a single vantage point, but is constructed through movement, through the continuous interplay between viewing and repositioning oneself.
Al reconfigurar en el espacio una lógica originalmente pictórica, Voo investiga el paso entre superficie y volumen, entre repetición y variación, proponiendo una experiencia en la que color, forma, luz y sombra operan como elementos dinámicos y establecen un campo perceptivo inestable, en el cual la mirada es invitada a oscilar entre encaje y discontinuidad.
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