Motta & Lima

Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima, both born in 1976 in São Paulo, Brazil, began their artistic collaboration in the late 1990s. Their work investigates the boundaries between the synthetic and the organic through video, installations, and objects, developing a visual language that reimagines what is natural and what is constructed. They were finalists for the Nam June Paik Award (2012) and winners of the CIFO Award from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (2010). They have participated in prestigious international residencies such as the UNESCO Aschberg program (Hiap, Helsinki) and the Artist Links initiative by the British Council (UK/Brazil). Their group exhibitions include the 1st Biennial of the End of the World (Ushuaia), the 10th Havana Biennial, and Höhenrausch.2 at OK_Centrum, Linz (Austria). Motta and Lima's practice constructs hybrid spaces where bodies, technologies, and landscapes converge, questioning the nature of perception and identity in contemporary contexts.