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lucia koch | after all
september 4 – october 3, 2021
nara roesler são paulo
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On the occasion of the recent inauguration of PROPAGANDA (2021), Lucia Koch’s installation of the series Fundos at Inhotim, Nara Roesler São Paulo presents Depois de tudo [After All], a selection of recent works from the same series.
PROPAGANDA, on view in Inhotim through August 2022, is part of the Território Específico [Specific Territory] program, in which artists are invited to develop new works based on their experiences with the institution and its surroundings. In this project, Koch simultaneously occupies spaces in the city of Brumadinho and at Instituto Inhotim, reflecting on the place of art and the logic of information dissemination maneuvers. The work consists of interventions on billboards, which bring photographs of empty boxes and packages that the artist collected in the cities of Brumadinho and Belo Horizonte. The images were then presented on advertising spaces that already existed in Brumadinho, which were rented to the project during the entire duration of the exhibition, and on billboards built especially for the occasion, installed in Inhotim.
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Lucia Koch
Helmet_3, 2020
pigment print on cotton paper (UV varnish)
110 x 176 cm | 43.3 x 69.3 in
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Lucia Koch
Gadget, 2020
pigment print on cotton paper (UV varnish)
120 x 82 cm | 47.2 x 32.3 in
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Lucia Koch
Goods, 2020/2021
pigment print on cotton paper (UV varnish)
160 x 277 cm | 63 x 109.1 in
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Lucia Koch
Vinho, 2002
pigment print on cotton paper, UV matte laminate
220 x 266 cm | 86.6 x 104.7 in
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Since 2001, works from the Fundos series have been presented in numerous exhibitions, both solo and group shows. The first public appearance of the work took place that year, in the artist's solo exhibition at Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP), in which Koch exhibited the first large scale photos of the series. The following year, the works were displayed in the group show Shift, curated by Luiza Interlenghi, at the Center of Curatorial Studies at Bard College, in Annandale-OnHudson, United States. According to the curator: “Koch unsettles areas of the museum’s wall by strategically placing large scale digital prints that depict alternative spaces. The suggested unfolding of the walls into adjacent rooms vanishes as the viewer gets closer to them and is able to identify details that betray the nature of the object photographed.”
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Lucia Koch
Rescue, 2021
pigment print on cotton paper (UV varnish)
160 x 110 cm | 63 x 43.3 in
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Lucia Koch
Catfood, 2017
pigment print on cotton paper
230 x 110 x 2,5 cm | 90.6 x 43.3 x 1 in
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lucia koch
b. 1966, Porto Alegre, Brazil
lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil
Lucia Koch's works often engage with investigations around space and its possibilities, seeking to offer ways of understanding, experiencing and inhabiting it. By establishing a dialogue between her artworks and architectonic aspects present in the space they occupy, Koch reimagines and interferes with materiality, light, textures, colors and other tangential lines.
According to critic and curator Moacir dos Anjos, the artist 'reorganizes the understanding of visual spaces [...] and establishes an interaction with the public, through negotiating with uprooting perceptions and the disconcerting effect this causes'. Using light filters and textiles, Lucia plays with light and its chromatic effects, creating tensions between the inside and the outside, transparency and opacity, thus altering the nature of space.
Since 2001, Lucia Koch has been photographing the interior of carton boxes and empty packaging in such a way that they come to resemble architectural structures. Also playing with notions of perspective, once these images are hung on a wall, they seem to allow for an extension of the space they exist in. Koch also experiments with scale, where the typically small becomes enormous and seems to become inhabitable, raising the question of what turns space into place and uproots the norms that dictate our spatial expectations and experiences.selected solo exhibitions
• Tumulto, turbilhão, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil (2019)
• Casa de vento, Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil (2019)
• A longa noite, Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
• La Temperatura del Aire, Fundación Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain (2015)
• Mañana, montaña, ciudad y Brotaciones, Flora ars + natura, Bogotá, Colombia (2014)
selected group exhibitions
• 11th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France (2011 and 2015)
• 27th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil (2006)
• 2nd, 5th and 8th editions Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (1999, 2005 and 2011)
• 8th Istambul Biennial, Istambul, Turkey (2003)• Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal (2019)
• 2 th Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (PST: LA/LA) -Learning from Latin America: Art, Architecture and Visions of Modernism, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, USA (2017)
• Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA (2014)
• When Lives Become Form, Yerba Buena Center For Arts, San Francisco, USA (2009); Contemporary Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2008)
selected institutional collections
• Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
• Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
• Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
