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The World as a Stage
Renata Lucas
Drawing © Paul Ryan


Renata Lucas
b 1971, Brazil

Brazilian artist Renata Lucas specialises in interventions in the physical space of the gallery or its surroundings, so that visitors, residents or passers-by experience a familiar environment anew. For her work for The World as a stage, entitled The Visitor (2007), she has planted a section of a forest in the formal garden situated between the museum and the river. This motley assemblage of firs, holly, ferns and undergrowth disrupts the existing, neatly ordered rows of trees, ignores the limits of the flowerbeds, and seems to be moving towards the museum itself.

Pawel Althamer | Cezary Bodzianowski | Ulla Von Brandenburg | Jeremy Deller | Trisha Donnelly | Geoffrey Farmer | Andrea Fraser | Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster | Jeppe Hein | Renata Lucas | Rita McBride | Roman Ondák | Markus Schinwald | Tino Sehgal | Catherine Sullivan | Mario Ybarra Jr