Brazilian Laura Lima is on fire and she’s not shy about it. She was chosen for a series of four site-specific installations for the brand-new Fondazione Prada in Milan. The artist from Minas Gerais, based in Rio, has an avant-garde work in the area of performance art. She was the first Brazilian to have works acquired in the “performance” category by a Brazilian museum, MASP, in São Paulo. Her work is in several national and international collections. She is also one of the founders of the A Gentil Carioca, in Rio de Janeiro, together with Ernesto Neto and Márcio Botner. She is the first Brazilian artist to be on display at the Fondazione Prada, which opened in May this year. The cultural center is located in a century-old distillery in Milan and was designed by the Dutch architecture firm OMA, led by Rem Koolhaas.

Until October 22, Laura Lima is on display presenting “Slight Agitation 4/4: Laura Lima”. Called “Horse Takes King”, the exhibition alludes to a game of chess, where viewers are invited to move freely, without knowing what awaits them from the artist's impulse. The objective – bold – is to distort the senses of our understanding and perception. There are three large sculptures, “Bird” (2016), “Pendulum” (2018) and “Telescope” (2018). “Bird” was made in collaboration with another great Brazilian artist: Zé Carlos Garcia. Together, the three sculptures question the nature of the public's engagement with space and place. It provokes the viewer to think about the boundary between the imaginary and the factual, to highlight the poetic absurdity inherent in what is apparently real. The Horse Takes King exhibition runs until October 22 at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.