– 26.10.2025
18h
In the exhibition Hilda, artist Lúcia Prancha presents a group of works that delve into the realms of the body, desire, and language, creating a fertile ground for dialogue between sculpture, literature, and critical thought.
The title directly references the writer and poet Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), whose transgressive, introspective, dense, and radical oeuvre serves here as a symbolic and emotional axis for the artistic research developed by Lúcia Prancha.
The artist’s practice is deeply rooted in literature and archive study. The relationship with texts and traces of the past manifests in her work through multiple supports and materials, including films, fabrics, hair, and a diverse range of objects. Each piece seems to contain a vibrant corporeality, echoes, delirium, rigour, a layer of history, or a fragment of interrupted discourse.
The works are not merely shaped matter but a language that can evoke eroticism, distortion, and desires both vividly and ironically. They can express tensions between identity and normativity, to approach them as an aesthetic and political possibility, and to question established ideas on what is beautiful, complete, or functional.
In Hilda, Lúcia Prancha creates a space of resonance in which Hilst’s words become matter for the sculptural and filmic gesture, touching on the poetic, the indecipherable, and the body of the other.
Antonia Gaeta
– 26.10.2025
18h