Lúa Coderch, born in Iquitos (Peru) in 1982, lives and works in Barcelona. The working methods of the magician provide an extreme example of a way of thinking about the world in aesthetic terms: everything the magician says and does, the objects he uses and organises around himself, the way he attracts the audience’s attention to one place or another, all this has the sole goal of producing an image. Implicit to this mode of operation is the understanding that everything is a medium, everything can become the support for a sign, like the canvas for a painting, and the museum, in turn, for the canvas, or all the gestures dictated by protocol at an official act, for example. In her work, Lúa is concerned with ways of appearing, of constituting something as a medium, as a screen, with the relationship that the media have with the narratives they support the fact that this is, precisely, the place where we go to meet the other: the place of communication and empathy and also of deception, if you will. She focuses on formats, which enable us to say and do, and narratives both large and small, such as history, economics, politics, biography, with their formal rudiments, their devices and supports, their accidents... 

Lúa has presented her work at such solo exhibitions as La muntanya màgica (Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona), Recopilar les fotografies sense memòria de l'arxiu familiar (EspaiDos, Terrassa) and Estratègies per desaparèixer (La Capella, espai Cub, Barcelona. BCN Producció’11), and in collective shows like The World of Interiors (The Green Parrot, Barcelona), El espacio cósmico estaba ahí, en dos o tres centímetros (Galeria Bacelos, Madrid and Vigo), Le Périmetre Interne (Institut Français, Barcelona), Critical Botox in times of 2.0 Feudalism (Pavilion, Bucharest) and Pogo (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona).

Biography written in 2014