Cristina Lucas

Born in Jaén, Spain, in 1973. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

With her work, Cristina Lucas reminds us that art is a form of seduction through which to understand society. Interested in the mechanisms of power, Cristina Lucas analyses political and economic structures, dissecting them to reveal the contradictions between official history, reality and collective memory.

Encompassing a wide variety of media, from sculpture and painting to video, photography and performance, Lucas addresses information and structures it into cartographies, installations and images, to create potential –and always unfinished– interpretations of reality.

Works by Cristina Lucas include the performance “Habla” (2008), in which the artist hammers a reproduction of Michelangelo Bunoarrotti’s sculpture of the Moses, alluding to the alleged incision the artist made in the sculpture’s kneecap; or pictorial compositions made with the same chemical elements that constitute the human body, and which are the product of the uncontrollable chemical reactions of those elements on the canvas. In her works, the artist uses her satirical style to interject cultural and political stereotypes and incorporate intimate and everyday perspectives.

Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at institutions such as MUDAM, Luxembourg; Kunstraum Innsbruck; Matadero, Madrid; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City. She has also participated in the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial (2008) and the 10th Liverpool Biennial (2010), as well as in Manifesta 12 in Palermo.

Cristina Lucas’s works are present in international collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona; Banco de España, Madrid; Mudam, Luxembourg; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; IVAM, Valencia; KIASMA National Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinky; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Fundación NMAC Montenmedio Cádiz; The Coppel Collection, Mexico; and Bulgary Collection, Rome; among others.