About me
My research investigates the relationships between body and space, understanding the body as a territory of memory and space as a field of inscription, displacement, and transformation.
My training in performing arts and my nearly two decades of acting experience directly influence my visual production, especially in constructing a state of presence and activating the body in relation to space.
The work develops from mapping procedures—of the body or of space—that unfold into operations of abstraction. In this process, I seek to challenge boundaries, displace forms, and produce reconfigurations that destabilize fixed readings of presence and belonging.
I am primarily interested in the interval: the "between" as a zone of passage where matter and sensation intersect. It is in this field that I activate and elaborate memories, understanding each work as a vestige of relationships—marks of bodies, spaces, and encounters that mutually modify each other.
I work in a non-hierarchical way with different supports and materials. Drawing is a recurring starting point, from which the research expands to painting, objects, and interventions in materials such as wood, tile, and leather. More than technique, I am interested in the coherence between gesture, material, and concept.
Biografia
Biography
Luana de Lucca was born in São Caetano do Sul (1981), lives and works in São Paulo. She holds a degree in Performing Arts (2003) and a teaching degree in Visual Arts (2015). She worked as an actress in renowned theater companies for two decades, in addition to working as an educator in the field of Arts, contributing to the training of different audiences and education professionals, both experiences that currently contribute to her creative processes.
With a diverse body of work, she has worked with different media, but it is in drawing that everything begins. Her work stems from the relationship of the physical and/or subjective body with other bodies and spaces. Seeking ways to translate these relationships, Luana operates through additions, subtractions, mappings, stacking, cuts, suspensions, and compositions in an attempt to translate memories, sensations, real and imagined experiences using materials such as tiles, sewing thread, wood, among others.
Currently, she dedicates herself to her work in her studio, in addition to collaborating on different projects through her art.
Group Exhibitions:
102 Windows to See the World - 2026 - Casarão Ateliê - Curated by Paulo du'Sanctus
On the Edge of the World - 2025 - IAB-RS - Curated by Anelise Vals
Artist Invites Artist - 2025 - Elisa Murgel Gallery - Curated by Elisa Murgel and Oscar D'Ambrósio
3rd Art on Paper Exhibition - 2025
50th Portinari Week - 2025 - Portinari House Museum
Art & Process - 2022 - Virtual
Lux Virtual Gallery - 2021 - Virtual
Visible Women - 2020 - Virtual