"While Brazilian artist Laura Lima's tangled, knotted, and woven sculptures are frequently exhibited in gallery spaces, as they are in her present solo show at Goodman Gallery, London, it is only by happenstance. Beyond the formal exhibition space, Lima envisions and invites collectors to install these nest-like constructions in any of the places mentioned in the show's title, " Communal Nests for Windows, Balconies, Verandas, Gardens, and Forests.""
""The works inhabit the space to be harvested by the public," said Lima in a statement, "like a garden that invades it naturally. Each piece is a florescence that maintains a relationship with the whole, forming one large communal nest made of many communal nests. When removed and taken to the places-a garden, a balcony-they continue to offer shelter and use to other beings, like displaced flowers that continue to live in new environments.""
Nest-like woven sculptures appear in galleries but are intended for installation in windows, balconies, verandas, gardens, and forests and outside formal exhibition spaces. The constructions invite interactions from birds, squirrels, rodents, and predators and encourage collectors to resist treating the works as precious objects. The pieces collectively form an alien ecosystem and can be garnished with fruit or water to entice small animals. Materials range from jute and porcelain to sisal thread and loofa. Individual elements are replaceable, allowing continued shelter and use for other beings and suggesting new ways of living with art.
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