Luana grew up in Contagem, an industrial city that made her body live through iron and soot. Raised by a carpenter (father) and a wordsmith (mother), she moves as she prays, searching for the survival and the healing of the landscapes she inhabits. Luana understands the body itself as a trap, and her actions as micropolitics that deal with the spatiality that her work evokes, confronts and confuses.
Series “fio desencapado, isca de confusão”
35th Biennial of São Paulo, 2023
“Cadeia de Corpo, Estudo I – Luana Vitra”, 2020. Duration: 11’26”
Education
2018
– Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a major in sculpture from Escola Guignard – UEMG (Minas Gerais State University)
2015-2017
– Graduated in Dance from Escola Livre de Artes (ELA), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2020
– “Three Wars inside the Chest”, Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
– “Torn body in a state of open sky”, Periscópio Arte Contemporânea Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– “Carrying the poem on your back”, Sesiminas Cultural Center art gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2022-2023
– “Scenorama”, curatorship: Gabi Ngcobo, Javett art centre, Pretoria, South Africa
2022
– “The show is over”, curatorship: Gabi Ngcobo, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
– “The silence of tired tongues”, curatorship: Raphael Fonseca, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021
– “The river is a snake”, Frestas Trienal das artes, curatorship: Diane Lima, Thiago de Paula and Beatriz Lemos, Sesc Sorocaba, Sorocaba, Brazil
– “Carolina Maria de Jesus: a Brazil por the Brazilian”, curatorship: Helio Menezes and Raquel Barreto, Instituto Moreira Sales – IMS, São Paulo, Brazil
2020-2021
– “Casa Carioca”, curated by Marcelo Campos and Joice Berth, Rio Museum of Art – MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Exhibition EDP Prize in Arts, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
– “The best part of the journey is the delay”, curated by Diane Lima, Valongo Festival, Santos, Brazil
– Ribeirão Preto art salon, Museum of art of Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
– Short Scenes Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– “BRAsA”, curated by Marcel Diogo, Mama Cadela Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– Prize Residency of creation in Visual Arts, curatorship: Guga Carvalho, Galeria de arte do Mercado Velho, Teresina, Brazil
– “Tactile Show”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2018
– “How a keel cuts the waves”, curated by Manu Grossi, Casa Azeitona, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– “Sangria”, Quartoamado Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2017
– Internal exhibition Escola Guignard, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Residencies and Laboratories
2023
– YBYTU Residency, YBYTU, São Paulo, Brazil
2021-2022
– Bolsa Pampulha 2021 – 2022, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2021
– Pivô Pesquisa, Pivô, curator: Hélio Menezes, São Paulo, Brazil
– Resiliência Residency, Silo Arte e Latitude Rural, Serrinha do Alambari, Brazil
– Outra Margem Residency, curator: Clara Sampaio, Casa Tutti, Vitória, Brazil
2020
– Frestas Arts Triennial, Study Program, curated by: Diane Lima, Beatriz Lemos, Thiago de Paula. Sesc Sorocaba, Sorocaba, Brazil
– LAB cultural BDMG Artes Cênicas, tutorship: Grace Passô, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2019
– “Entre Nós” Residency, curator: Clara Sampaio, Morro da Vargem Zen Monastery, Ibiraçú, Brazil
– “Entre Nós” Residency, OÁ Galeria, Vitória, Brazil
– Prize Residency of creation in Visual Arts, Teresina, Brazil
2018-2019
– Residency in artistic research, Cefart, FAPEMIG and Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Awards
2020
– EDP arts award, Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
– Visual Arts Residency Prize, Teresina, Brazil
Works in public collections
2020
– “Counterspell”, work inspired by the author Carolina Maria de Jesus and developed for the collection of touchable objects at the Museum of the Portuguese Language, São Paulo, Brazil
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2022:
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2021:
“PÍLULA EDP NAS ARTES: Luana Vitra”, 2020. Duration: 3’00”
