Artist Talk: Jaime Lauriano

Jaime Lauriano lives and works between Porto/Portugal and São Paulo/Brazil. Through video, installation, and text, Lauriano examines the violent relations maintained between institutions of power and state control, such as the police, prisons, embassies, borders, and subjects, focusing on the ways in which these institutions shape the subjective processes of society. His work deconstructs the systems of power contained in the production of history, foregrounding the historical traumas relegated to the past in an effort to revise and rework history.

Co-organized by the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) and the Visual Arts Center with generous support from Shannon and Mark Hart.

Bio

Jaime Lauriano received his BA from the Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo in 2010. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife (2018) and MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (2018) amongst others. He has been included in group exhibitions at Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, São Paulo (2019); Museu de Arte do Rio (2018); Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2018); Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2018); and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2018). His works are held in the collections of Museu de Arte do Rio, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and Schoepflin Stiftung. He was a finalist for the 2019 PIPA Prize.