Lidia Lisbôa | Artsoul

Galeria Millan is pleased to present Acordelados, first solo show of Lidia Lisbôa (Guaíra, PR, 1970) at the gallery, opening the 2022 institutional program. The artist receives an anthological show, curated by Thiago de Paula Souza. The exhibition traces the artist's trajectory from the late 1990s to her most recent investigations. 

 

After moving to São Paulo in 1986, Lidia Lisbôa worked in a couture atelier and, in 1991, began her artistic production. She obtained training in metal engraving at the Lasar Segall Museum, contemporary sculpture and ceramics at the Brazilian Sculpture and Ecology Museum (MuBE) and at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios. In 1997, she participated in the group show Tridimensional, at the Brazilian Sculpture and Ecology Museum (MuBE) and, in the same year, she had her first individual show at the Goethe Institute, in São Paulo. In 1998, the artist received the Maimeri Award - 75 years, granted by the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios. In 2020, Lisbôa exhibited at the Centro Cultural São Paulo and at the 12th Mercosul Biennial, and in 2021 she was part of the group shows Enciclopédia Negra, at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Carolina Maria de Jesus: um Brasil para brasileiros, at the Instituto Moreira Salles; and the show A Substância da Terra: O Sertão, curated by Simon Watson, which first took place at the Museu Nacional da República with itinerancy at the Slag Galery in New York. 

 

The first room of the show at Galeria Millan will feature works from the series titled Tetas que deram de mamamar ao mundo, production of which began in 2011. These are large textile sculptures that are lifted to the ceiling and fall close to the floor, in a form reminiscent of female breasts. The exhibition also presents drawings by the artist whose forms refer to her sculptural works, in particular, to the series Cupinzeiros. In this series, also present in the exhibition, the ceramic sculptures establish formal and material relationships with the termite mounds that occupy the landscape of the Brazilian countryside and that recall Lisbôa's childhood memories. 

 

The artist works with various materials and techniques, such as drawing, textile art, crochet, performance and sculptures in ceramics, clay, porcelain and buttons. According to her, "my work seeks to evoke the strength and power of the feminine, the potency of women as the driving force of the significance of their own existence in the world." Her works relate to the memory and experiences that the artist lived in her childhood in the countryside. As well as addressing the forms of the female body, the process of motherhood and the relationships that ways of life establish with territoriality. When referring to her production, she states that "(...) in my works I want to weave and mold to destructure, to undo what must be undone and give views to ways of life and expressions that many years of concealment wanted to throw into oblivion".