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On September 25 the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA) will be presented to Brazilian artist Laura Lima. The award is a tribute to a living artist with an exceptional oeuvre and a demonstrable influence on other artists—a real artists’ artist.
A theme that is central to Lima’s work is her fascination for the complexity of social relationships and human behaviour. In this, a main role is played by humans and animals, which are often physically present in their sheer materiality and left in the open for someone to encounter.
the fifth floor is a groundbreaking exhibition that instigates an innovative dialogue with museum practices. A fully functioning tailor shop, with real life tailors, will be working every day to clothe a collection of empty frames through the whole exhibition. Thereby subverting, ironically, the premises of painting and its modernist critique.
Laura Lima. the fifth floor
27 September 2014–11 January 2015
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
http://www.bonnefanten.nl/en/update/press/bonnefanten_award_2014_for_laura_lima
