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Lygia Clark: The I And You

Lygia Clark, Diálogo de Óculos (Glasses Dialogue), 1966.

Until Jan 12, 2025
77-82 Whitechapel High St, Shadwell, London E1 7QX, United Kingdom

Born in 1920, the pioneering Brazilian painter and sculptor Lygia Clark once said, “We do everything so automatically that we have forgotten the poignancy of smell, of physical anguish, of tactile sensations of all kinds.” Early on, Clark was a Constructivist and an important figure in the Neo-Concrete movement. But in the 1970s she became interested in sensory perception and psychology, and sought interaction between her art and the viewer. This survey traces the development of her visual language from the mid–1950s to the early 1970s. Clark died in 1988, and this is the first U.K. solo museum show of her work. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Eduardo Clark. Courtesy Associação Cultural O Mundo de Lygia Clark