Laís Amaral's research on the effects of environmental collapse on contemporary society plays an integral role in her artwork. In recent years, she has dedicated herself to observing how we relate to nature and the fragmentation that occurs when the human body is separated from its natural environment.
Finding pleasure in disobeying and contradicting the expectations of abstraction, her paintings create a sensitive language that deviates from a fixed linearity. As an artist and craftswoman, Amaral incorporates a strong relationship to manual making by adding beads and other materials to her canvases, creating textures that become enmeshed with the build-ups, marks, and scrapes that constitute the surfaces of her works.
Laís Amaral (b. 1993, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Her most recent solo exhibitions include No meio do peito um buraco fundo, o mais fundo da cachoeira, onde a luz não vem de fora, HOA Gallery, São Paulo (2023); Laís Amaral: Cement and Water, M+B Almont, Los Angeles (2022); Bebendo Água no Saara, Anita Schwartz Galeria, Rio de Janeiro (2020).
Additionally, her work has been included in group exhibitions as A Defect of Color, Museum of Art of Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro (2022); Possible Agreements, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2022); Onde se espreitam vias somos aquelas que permeiam o abismo em busca das frestas, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2021); Manjar: Para Habitar a liberdade, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro (2019).
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