MARCO HOSTS THE POETICS OF LAURA LIO
MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, presents Savia y sangre (Sap and Blood), a solo exhibition by Laura Lio (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1967), which reveals the artist’s social vision and commitment through her work. Lio's practice involves a meticulous observation of certain organic and natural processes in search of a kind of internal order. With a poetic approach, the Argentine artist based in Spain challenges this natural structure through visual language and words.
The exhibition explores the main pillars of Lio’s work: from her focus on publishing and artist’s books, poetry, and object poems, to interventions in public spaces. It is in this latter field that the artist fully comes into her own, using architectural structures as both a medium and amplifier of her critical and poetic messages.
The journey proposed by curators Miguel Fernández-Cid and Pilar Souto Soto brings us closer to a body of work situated between the public and private spheres, grounded in an exploration of the potential of written and conceptual communication. At the same time, Lio has developed part of her practice through public intervention projects aligned with land art, as well as through research into the relationships between natural and human architectures and contemporary art.
Laura Lio. Savia y sangre can be visited until September 21 at MARCO, Príncipe, 54, Vigo (Spain).
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