The poetic and formal investigations that surround the works created by Luciana Rique for the Sólido Volátil project were driven by her need to generate visual metaphors to transcend the normative perception of the landscape, everyday life and existential dilemmas that mark her trajectory.

Therefore, we are faced with a work that challenges and advances beyond the limits of photography to create visual parables that delude our visual field, offering renewed points of view for a given paradigm, object or occurrence in time-space. It is through this potential for transmutation of the apparent that Luciana Rique's work solidifies itself as a therapeutic instance. Everything that apparently affirms itself in one way can be reformed infinitely. The idea that all apparent reality is changeable permeates the axis of her research.

Art then bursts forth with its potential to transmute reality, capable of creating a welcoming environment and an expanded perception of our place in the world. In this exhibition, Luciana invites the public to interact with her research, by arranging images and materials used in her works on a table so that they can be freely handled in search of new propositions.

Exhibited last year in Rio de Janeiro, Sólido Volátil arrives in São Paulo in a revised and expanded version. There is now a greater emphasis on works that leap from the plane, gain three-dimensionality and create a new force field in this investigation that already polarized distinct planes, opacity and brightness, figure and background. Nothing is what it seems to be. Luciana Rique increasingly affirms the inconstancy of form and matter.

On the threshold, the drive for becoming, which these works propagate, categorically overrides the process of stagnation of that which is naturally in the world in order to move forward. Every unique being preserves within itself the power to be multiple.

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Eder Chiodetto