Lucia Koch will be exhibiting a body of newly commissioned works for the upcoming exhibition at the Inhotim Institution in Brumadinho, Brazil

August 27, 2021

PROPAGANDA is composed of site-specific works installed throughout the municipality of Brumadinho and Inhotim created with photos of boxes and packages collected in the cities of Brumadinho and Belo Horizonte. In continuation of her Fundos series: photographs of the interior of empty packages once occupied by various objects, the images are manipulated to house and reflect light and scaled to mimic architectural scales inviting the viewer into a place once possessed.

PROPAGANDA opens Saturday, August 28th, 2021 as part of the institute's thematic programming for 2021-2022 titled Specific Territory. Inspired by the studies of Brazilian geographer Milton Santos, the research brings the concept of “territory” from its different scales and borders. For Santos, the existence of the territory is only given by the life that animates it and by its social relations.

The Inhotim Institute is a contemporary art museum and botanical garden, located in Brumadinho. Recognized as a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP) by the Government of Minas Gerais in 2008, Inhotim is a private, non-profit entity. Conceived in the early 1980s by Bernardo de Mello Paz, Inhotim was established in 2006 on the ferrous soil of a farm and exists as one of the largest open-air museums in the world.

The special thematic visit takes place on 8/28/2021 at 2 pm, with a limit of up to 15 people.