Luisa Cunha

Luisa Cunha was born in 1949 in Lisbon. At the basis of her work is a very clear and emotional notion of the relativity of life itself, and consequently of the conventions, of the meaningful difference between interior and exterior, of private and public, and of the fragmentary nature of the "non-place", of power, of time and place dimensions, and that of the discourse. This conviction has had its origin in a practice that the artist has developed from an early age, being trained in observing without any aim in mind, just by letting things enter, in a state of complete receptiveness, by imposing no frontiers, and no judgements (as much as possible).

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First finding things and then seeking them.

Luisa Cunha has showed her work at the Biennale of Sydney, Australia and at the most prestigious foundations and Museums, such as EDP Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Serralves Foundation and Culturgest. In 2021 Luisa Cunha received the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize and was selected to represent Portugal at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. Her work is represented in the best contemporary art collections.

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