Português
1983, lives and works at São Paulo
Lucas Arruda focuses on the landscape genre, using an approach that explores complex mental states and our experience of light and perception rather than specific locations – obstinately thinking and experimenting with our capacity of living through the mediation of light and the gaze. Arruda’s sceneryexists at the point of tension between abstraction and figuration, between apparition and emptiness. With each gaze, experiences are delineated through a process of constructing and reconstructing memories, as if the arrangement of color fields has interacted with intangible landscapes and felt sensations. As viewers move above and below horizon lines, atmospheres laden with visual and metaphysical questions unfold. Between sky and earth, the ethereal and solid, imagination and reality, meditative contemplation finds its routine while following an endless cycle of sublimation and deposition of matter.
