DANIEL LIMA

A virtual bridge, bright and untouchable, was emitted from the Solar do Unhão building, losing itself in the horizon towards Africa. This piece by Daniel Lima, an artist born in Rio Grande do Norte, is a part of his work with connections through light, a work that began in São Paulo, the city where he resides. Lima is an urban artist who provokes interventions in daily life in order to create new meanings: he subverts language and conventional media, bringing up themes such as control, truculence, and racism. In a previous work, Lima created virtual writings on walls with laser beams, taking the street language into other spaces. “Coluna Laser III – Mar” (Laser Pillar III – Sea) belongs in a series of virtual bridges. Thus, light is made into a guide to our eyes, and a reminder of our links to the other side of the Atlantic. “In times of simulation and duplication, of sampling and revision, Daniel Lima does not attach himself to fixed identities, he does not cultivate roots; rather, he remixes techniques in actions that destabilize concepts. In Lima, as well as in some of his contemporaries, perhaps we can see identity being torn apart, instead of blindly defended”, according to the writer Ricardo Rosas.

Born in 1973, in the city of Natal, Lima lives and works in São Paulo. In partnerships with other artists and groups, he creates audio visual pieces that join image, live music, and narration in a celebration of urban culture elements. Daniel Lima took part in the VII Havana Biennale (2001), in tactical media exhibitions and events in Brazil and other Latin-American countries, and in Europe.


Coluna Laser III – Mar (Laser Pillar – Sea) I Salvador, 2005
(Scientific advisory by Dr. Eduardo Landulfo)



DANIEL LIMA by CONTRA FILÉ