The exhibition by Nicolás Lamas (1980, Lima, Peru), presented by PROGETTO LUDOVICO (Milan) in collaboration with the Max Goelitz Gallery (Berlin and Munich) at Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice, brings together a body of works that investigates the ways in which knowledge, matter and systems of classification shape our perception of reality. Through sculptures, installations and images, the artist constructs configurations in which objects from heterogeneous fields – scientific, technological, natural and cultural – enter into relation, generating unexpected constellations.
At the core of Lamas’s practice lies assemblage as a critical device. Found elements, fragments of instruments, organic materials and technological residues are juxtaposed according to associative logics that suspend traditional hierarchies between objects and fields of knowledge. Within these hybrid compositions, the elements retain traces of their origins while simultaneously acquiring new semantic possibilities, opening spaces of interpretation that challenge the categories through which we habitually read the world. The works thus take shape as open systems, traversed by relations that connect different disciplines and temporalities: from natural history to material culture, from technology to the archaeological dimension of the object. Within these configurations, the artistic gesture does not merely combine materials but activates a process of observation that questions the very tools through which reality is measured, catalogued and rendered intelligible.
