"If the loss of individuality is, in some way, imposed upon modern man, it is the artist who offers him a form of revenge — the chance to rediscover it.” — Lygia Clark

One of the essential potentials of art lies in its ability to create a parallel, sensorial universe — a place of refuge, or at the very least, a mental space from which we might view the world and our position within it through a more reflective, critical, dreamlike and restorative lens. Artists such as Luciana Rique dedicate themselves to building such spaces — capsules of poetic revelation, drawn from the fabric of the ordinary — which come to function, in turn, as therapeutic territories.

Intermission, Rique’s first solo exhibition, brings together a selection of recent photographic works that function as a kind of device — one that seeks to bridge the conscious and the unconscious, vision and illusion, body and cosmos.
“My work is about the unheard, the unseen, the unspoken,” says the artist.

“It began when I started reflecting on a period of disconnection I experienced between childhood and adolescence. It felt like I was permanently out of focus. Through photography, I discovered a void — a space in which my perceptions could resonate, and where I could create a place of healing and reconciliation with myself.”

To materialise this space of artistic and therapeutic speculation, Rique turns her attention to the unseen — the cracks, the corners, the liminal spaces that suggest the presence of a harmonious parallel dimension. Her work stretches in gentle opposition to the rational, Cartesian mode of life we are so often forced to inhabit. In this counter-movement, she captures fleeting choreographies of accidental light, revealing subtle chromatic conjunctions that quietly settle within the frame — into forms, textures, and geometric structures that suggest balance, stillness, and release.

Within these images, we sense an artistic gesture committed to constructing, frame by frame, a constellation of scenes — the sketch of a parallel universe in which Luciana Rique might dwell. By exposing (and exposing herself) within this non-linear space of light, colour, and form, the artist invites us in. We are drawn into a perception that is sensorial, ecstatic, and immersive — one that resonates with the concept of relational aesthetics, so profoundly explored by artists such as Lygia Clark, who once wrote:
“Through the other, the individual may come to perceive his own meaning — to know himself.”

In these images — which orbit Rique’s new studio space — her singular gaze brings forth what vision alone often fails to reveal. Her work operates in the spaces between what is seen and what is sensed, between the photographic referent and illusion, between trauma and freedom, between the tangible world and its theatrical representation.

-Éder chiodetto