Maria Laet, Pore

Pore features over 70 images, among photographs, videos, installations and prints, from works by visual artist Maria Laet, who works with surfaces and their limits. The artist’s work was featured in the 33rd São Paulo Biennale: Affective Affinities (2018). This publication also includes an essay by critic and researcher Frederico Coelho.

About the artist
Maria Laet was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1982, where she still lives and works. She was an artist in residence at Schloss Blamoral (Bad Ems, Germany, 2009), Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa (Lisbon, 2010), and Residency Unlimited (New York, 2014). She has shown her work individual exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paris, Lisbon, Milan and New York. She was part of collective exhibits such as: 33rd São Paulo Biennale: Affective Affinities, 2018; Cosmogonies, au gré des éléments (MAMAC, Nice, 2018); Video Art in Latin America (LAXART, Los Angeles, 2017); La Vie Aquatique (Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain, Occiatnie/Méditerranée, France, 2017); The Valise (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017); Tangentes (MSK, Gent, Belgium, 2015); Encruzilhada (Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 2015); Rumors of the Meteore (49 Nor 6 est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, 2014); Everydayness (Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland, 2014); From the margin to the edge (Somerset House, London, 2012); 18th Syney Biennale: All our relations (2012); Convite à Viagem (Rumos Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, 2012); and O lugar da linha (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói and Paço das Artes in São Paulo, 2010). Her work is part of collections such as MAM, Gilberto Chateaubriand, Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói; 49 Nord 6 est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France; MSK, Gent, Belgium; AGI Verona, Italy; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; and MoMA, New York.

Specifications
Artist Maria Laet
Translator Lynnea Hansen
Language Portuguese/English
Page count 84
ISBN 9788555910623
Cover Ana Laet and Eduardo Paixão
Format Softcover
Size 19 x 24 cm
Year 2018