Lines fracture, colors overflow — in the art of Lucia Guim, restlessness becomes a visual
language. A Rio-born artist who found her refuge and studio in the mountains of
Petrópolis, she channels this tide of unease that she feels pulsing in the world and within
herself. Her art is not a mere escape; it is the alchemy that transforms internal ghosts
and urgent realities into pure expression.
Based in Petrópolis, Lucia explores techniques such as watercolor, ink, wax crayon, and
ceramics with a restless freedom that borders on ritual. There is no formal rigidity —
there is tension. In her works, precision meets rupture, gesture coexists with delicacy, and
fury coexists with silence. Her compositions seem to spring from an intimate terrain,
where the unconscious flourishes in almost mythological forms, between the human and
the imaginary.
Lucia doesn't seek to represent — she evokes. Her works don't provide answers, but pose
questions. They are emotional maps of an inner landscape marked by wounds,
memories, and resistance. The female figure — so often oppressed, so often reinvented
— is a recurrent and symbolic presence. In her work, the female body is neither icon nor
showcase, but territory. A territory of strength, of fractures, of poetry.
In this territory she conjures, Lucia Guim's art becomes a mirror. Compositions that, with
the honesty of their fractures and the beauty of their colors, invite us to confront our own
restlessness, to recognize the delicate tension between the rupture and the strength that
dwells within us. It is a silent dialogue between the canvas and the observer's soul, an
invitation to dive into the complex cartography of the self that she so bravely traces.
By making art her "safety valve," Lucia builds more than images: she builds an aesthetic
refuge where reality and daydream intertwine. Her creations remind us that art doesn't
need to explain — it just needs to touch. And Lucia Guim, with rare sensitivity, touches
where we didn't know it hurt.