“If the loss of individuality is somehow imposed on modern man, the artist offers him a rematch and the opportunity to find himself.” -Lygia Clark

One of the potentials of art is to create a parallel sensitive universe where we can take refuge or at least create a sensitive mental space, from which we can look at the world and our attitude towards life in a questioning, critical, dream like and uplifting way. In this way, certain artists such as Luciana Rique dedicate themselves to building with their work a kind of capsule, a territory outside of ordinary everyday life, which ends up constituting a therapeutic space.

Intermission, Luciana Rique's first solo show, brings together a selection of photographs from the artist's recent production, which works as a kind of device that aims to interconnect the conscious and the unconscious, vision and illusion, the body and the cosmos.

“My work is about the unheard, the unseen, the unsaid. It arises from the moment I decided to reflect on a situation of alienation that I experienced between childhood and adolescence. It was like being permanently out of focus. I noticed in photography a gap space through which I created relationships where my perceptions resonate and create a place of healing and reconciliation with myself”, says the artist.

To materialize this device of artistic and therapeutic speculation, Luciana Rique carefully observes the cracks, the corners, investigating everything that promises a harmonious parallel dimension. A relaxation in counterpoint to the realities that push us towards a rational and Cartesian way of life. And then, she captures a simple choreography of accidental lights to reveal subtle chromatic conjunctions that accommodate themselves in the composition, in graphics and geometries in which the balance of forms reveals territories full of calm and freedom.

Among these images, we realize that the artistic gesture is committed to building, frame by frame, a constellation of scenes that, when brought together, give rise to the outline of a parallel universe that Luciana Rique creates to live in. By exposing herself, in this non-linear space created by the juxtaposition of lights, colors and formal games, the artist invites us to enter it and let us be permeated by a sensorial and ecstatic perception. This is where the potential of a relational work emerges, at this moment of the public's encounter with his work, a line widely propagated by some artists, such as Lygia Clark, who said: “Through another person, the individual can perceive his or her own meaning. , to know yourself.”

In these images that orbit Luciana Rique's new workspace, her singular gaze reveals what vision usually does not reveal to us. Her work operates between what is seen and what is not perceived, between the photographic referent and the artist, between trauma and freedom, between the tangible world and its representation in theater. Intermission.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          - Éder Chiodetto