Hilda

In the exhibition Hilda, artist Lúcia Prancha presents a set of works that delve into the territories of the body, desire and language, creating a fertile field of dialogue between sculpture, literature and critical thinking.

The choice of title refers directly to the writer and poet Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), whose transgressive, introspective, dense and radical work serves here as a symbolic and affective axis for the artistic research proposed by Lúcia Prancha.

The artist’s practice is deeply rooted in literature and the study of archives. This relationship with texts and traces of the past manifests itself in the work through multiple media and materials, such as films, fabrics, hair, and objects of various kinds. Each work seems to carry within it a vibrant corporeality, echoes, delirium, rigour, a layer of history or a fragment of interrupted discourse.

They are not just moulded matter, but a language capable of evoking eroticism, the misshapen and desire in a vivid and ironic way. Capable of articulating tensions between identity and normativity, of addressing them as an aesthetic and political possibility and of questioning established ideas about beauty, completeness and functionality.

In Hilda, Lúcia Prancha creates a space of resonance, where Hilst’s words become material for sculptural and filmic gesture: they brush against the poetic, the indecipherable, the body of the other.

Antonia Gaeta