“My art is a way of entering into other people’s lives,” the Brazilian artist Renata Lucas told Frieze in 2012, “of understanding how it all works, of asking some questions and watching the responses. What I really want is to understand people, to get inside the fabric of their worlds.” Lucas does that by creating very large context-specific projects, which she produces on-site out of building materials such as plywood, bricks, concrete. The installations alter people’s physical surroundings. For example, in 2010, Lucas tilted a Berlin sidewalk by 7.5 degrees, so that people canted into a wall. Or a scaffolding she installs will force viewers into close proximity with one another, or interrupt a well-practiced routine. In São Paulo, her home country, Lucas now receives her biggest survey to date. —Elena Clavarino