Luciana Lamothe works with sculpture, drawing, installation, photography and video, using architecture as a tool to show social values subjected to the rigidity of vertical structures where control, patriarchal hegemony and strongly established cultural models predominate and influence the idea of gender. Lamothe creates artworks that challenge these preconceptions and asks the viewers to establish a relation with their own bodies, the exhibition space and the materials of the works. The sculptures often trigger instability and vertigo as a metaphor of the fragility of socially established structures. The brutalist and minimal aesthetics of the sculptures, installations and drawings often contrast with the extremely fine and delicate forms of the works.
The artist is currently representing Argentina at the 60th Venice Biennale Arte 2024 'Foreigners Everywhere' with the project 'Ojalá se derrumben las puertas', curated by Sofía Dourron.
Lamothe has exhibited internationally in numerous museums, galleries and biennials, including: Biennale Arte, Venezia (2024); Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires (2023); Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires (2023); Microcentro Cuenta Festival, Buenos Aires (2023); Festival des Arts Éphémères, Les Baux-de-Provence (2022); Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires (2022); El Dije, Mexico (2021); Museo Enrique Larreta, Buenos Aires (2021); Steve Turner LA, Los Angeles (2019); Casa de Victoria Ocampo, Buenos Aires (2019); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2017); Steve Turner LA, Los Angeles (2016); Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2016); 3rd Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay (2016); La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris (2015); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); The Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires (2013); 11th Lyon Biennal (2011); Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires (2011); de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (2011); Da Maré Museum, Rio de Janeiro (2010); 5th Berlin biennal (2008); Museo del Barrio, New York (2008); Punch Gallery, Seattle (2007), in a satellite exhibition on the occasion of the 7th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2007), among others.
In 2018 Lamothe took part in Basel Cities Public Art Program in Buenos Aires, curated by Cecilia Alemani. The artist was awarded the CIFO 2024 Grant and Comissions Award as an emerging artist, the Pollock-Krasner Grant for Artists by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York (2019), the Art Dubai residency programme at UEA (2019), the Lichter Art Award in Frankfurt, Germany (2011) and the Kuitca Scholarship from Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires (2010-2011). She took part in the Factatory residency, Lyon (2022), was artist-in-residence at Atelier Ni, Marseille (2021), MANA Wynwood, USA (2016) and Skowhegan, Maine, USA (2007). Her work is part of public and private collections such as: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Fundación Itaú Cultural, Buenos Aires; Museo Arte Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (MAR); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (Castagnino+MACRO), Santa Fe; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA); Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Texas and 21C Museum Hotels, Kentucky, among others.
