Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing

The Drawing Drawing is the first solo exhibition in London by Brazilian multidisciplinary artist Laura Lima (b. 1971, Governador Valadares, Brazil).

Widely exhibited internationally, Lima’s category-defying practice has explored the relationship between living beings, sites, material and time since the 1990s.

Across the Lower and Upper Galleries, The Drawing Drawing brings together a concise selection of works spanning Lima’s evolving practice to the present day. The exhibition shares its title with a major site-specific commission that hijacks the conventions of a life drawing class. In Lima’s version, in which a life model and artists slowly and unpredictably orbit one another on mechanised platforms, the positions of subject and object, and accompanying ideas of faithful representation and mastery, are put into question.