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Lucia Nogueira: Ends Without End

Luhring Augustine Chelsea, New York

Fri 17 Jan 2025 to Sat 22 Feb 2025

531 West 24th Street, NY 10011 Lucia Nogueira: Ends Without End

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Artist: Lucia Nogueira

Luhring Augustine presents Ends Without End, a solo exhibition of works by Lucia Nogueira, marking the artist’s second show with the gallery, and the first in the Chelsea location.

Artworks

Lucia Nogueira

Lucia Nogueira

Cupboard, 1996 Wood, blackboard paint, nail, magnet

67 × 80 × 35 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Sink, metal, glass tube, wheel, broken tricycle, rubber cord, pliers

Lucia Nogueira

Steel post, cable drum

57.1 × 101.9 × 73 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Lucia Nogueira

Innocent, 1993 Wood, toys, glass

226.1 × 20 × 86 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Lucia Nogueira

Needle, 1995 Glass, silicon piping

53 × 213 × 900 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Steel, gloss paint, glass, cast iron

73 × 72 × 73 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Steel angle-iron, radio aerial

110.1 × 375 × 50 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Watercolor on paper

29 × 39 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Wood, Dr. Martens shoes, thread, crocodile clip

32.4 × 50.8 × 18.4 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Watercolor on paper

39 × 29 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Watercolor and ink on paper

19 × 24 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Watercolor and ink on paper

21 × 23 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Rope, bronze

100 × 4 × 60 cm

Lucia Nogueira

Ink and graphite on paper

28 × 38 cm

Installation Views

Celebrated for her poetic sculptures, installations, and drawings, Nogueira (1950–1998) was a Brazilian-born artist who spent much of her career in London. The city profoundly shaped her practice, and as Ian Hunt notes, she “[drew from] the strong British precedents in the 80s for sculpture as an experimental and empirical urban art form.”[1] London’s streets were also inspirational, often providing the found materials that became central to many of her works. In pieces such as Ends Without End, Nogueira evokes open-ended narratives with disparate everyday objects—a deconstructed tricycle, a displaced sink, and disjointed handrails—that are seemingly linked by silicone cords that appear and disappear as they pierce the floor and wind through the installation. Another striking work, Needle, incorporates red silicone tubing that cuts through the floor, under a glass sheet, and extends into another room. The sense of playfulness with a disquieting edge that permeates these installations is a current that runs throughout Nogueira’s oeuvre, the mundane often taking on a foreboding tone.

Nogueira’s work was also shaped by language and her experience as a non-native English speaker, her titles frequently infusing modest assemblages with layered narratives. In Full Stop, an iron post and a wooden drum are transformed by an enigmatic title that invites multiple interpretations—a phrase that suggests both an action and a moment of finality—and imbues the simple objects with an evocative tension. In Innocent, a toy creature under a glass box is juxtaposed with a wind-up mouse placed just outside of the container. Enclosed within a wooden frame, this tableau feels both ordinary and mysterious, its components transformed into characters in an unfolding drama. This duality reflects the way in which Nogueira’s work considers the tensions and the connections between her Brazilian roots and her adopted home in the UK.

Born in Brazil, Nogueira studied journalism in Brasília and photography in Washington, D.C. before moving to London in 1975, where she studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. Her career was marked by significant recognition, including a Fondation Cartier fellowship in 1993 and a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 1996. Her work has been the subject of major exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Fundação de Serralves: Museu de Arte Contemporânea in Porto, Portugal in 2007, and a presentation at the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo in 2018. Nogueira’s work is held in prominent international collections, including Tate, London, UK; Fundação de Serralves: Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Portugal; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Portugal; and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain, among others.

[1] Hunt, Ian. Lucia Nogueira: Mischief, exh. cat. Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard, 2011.

Installation view of Lucia Nogueira: Ends Without End, Luhring Augustine, New York (January 17–February 22, 2025). © Lucia Nogueira; Courtesy of the Estate of Lucia Nogueira and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: Farzad Owrang.

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