Booth walkthrough
LUCA BENITES
FEMALUMA (Cascais, Rio de Janeiro)
In Spanish, without translation.
Open to the public.
A finished work can conceal an entire sequence of decisions. Luca Benites treats geometry not as something fixed but as something experienced through time. Perception changes as bodies, architecture, and light enter the work, shifting the certainties historically associated with Constructivism and Concrete art toward instability and transformation. ESTE FOCUS is a moment to look closely, listen carefully, and understand the ideas behind the work, and the process that brought it into being.
CURATORIAL VISION
FEMALUMA presents works by Luca Benites that examine geometry through perception, reflection, and time. Circles, triangles, spirals, mirrored planes, and polished metallic surfaces form a visual vocabulary that changes according to light, the viewer’s position, and the surrounding space. Rather than treating geometry as a fixed rational system, Benites approaches it as an experience unfolding through duration. Working across sculpture, relief, and modular construction, he revisits legacies of Constructivism and Concrete art while shifting their emphasis from stability toward transformation. Reflective surfaces incorporate fragments of architecture, bodies, and changing light, making the viewer an active component of the work and positioning perception itself as a temporal process.
BIO
Luca Benites (b. 1981, Brasília) is an artist and architect based in São Paulo whose practice examines architecture, materiality, memory, time, and transformation. He begins painting in Montevideo with Ignacio Iturria and studies architecture at Universidad ORT Uruguay, followed by postgraduate studies in architecture and fine arts in Barcelona. In 2016, FOGO marks a decisive shift in his practice: Benites burns 298 earlier works and subsequently uses their ashes to develop installations, paintings, and hourglasses addressing loss, value, and regeneration. His work is held in collections including MAC Niterói, MACA, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba.