The practice of Nicolás Lamas is fed by a reflection on space, time, culture and science. Researching several scientific fields, as astronomy and physics, Lamas formalises his interrogations by diverse media, playing with codes of "showing", by confronting objects that seem opposite at first, as to let meaning and drama emerge.
Nicolás Lamas' work constantly revolves around the interaction between things, where they coexist and create other kind of associations, exchanges and potential combinations without established rules. His artistic research can be seen as a series of speculative exercises where everything is part of a cyclical process of transmission of information and energy. It is important to think of Lamas' practice as the result of a production process in constant flux; where intuition, chance, play and physics determine his connection with objects and images within specific contexts. Through different methodologies of research and production, several ideas take specific states and forms in each project. This generates a heterogeneous and changing body of work with multiple layers of reference and meaning. A system where things create complexity in other logics and everything fluctuates between order and chaos.
Lamas has had solo exhibitions at the Espai 13 of the Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona (Spain), at CCC OD Tours and at La Borie (France), at Tenderpixel, London (United Kingdom), Sabot, Cluj (Romania), at Brand New Gallery and Spazio Tripla, Bologna (Italy), at Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara (Mexico), at Galería Lucía de la Puente in Lima (Peru), at Marion De Canniére, Antwerp and Meessen, Brussels (Belgium).
His work has recently shown at mumok, Vienna (Austria), the HOW Art museum, Shanghai (China), the Kunsthalle Mulhouse, at M.O.C.O., Montpellier, at the Petit Palais, Paris and the Carré d'Art, Nîmes (France), at CAB Art Center and Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels and at Lokaal 01, Antwerpen (Belgium), at Witte de With in Rotterdam and Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), at CCCC, Balencia (Spain), at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (Poland), at Platform Centre in Winnipeg (Canada), at the Biennale of photography at MAC in Lima (Peru), at the EVN Collection, Maria Enzersdorf and Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (Austria).
Nicolás Lamas' work constantly revolves around the interaction between things, where they coexist and create other kind of associations, exchanges and potential combinations without established rules. His artistic research can be seen as a series of speculative exercises where everything is part of a cyclical process of transmission of information and energy. It is important to think of Lamas' practice as the result of a production process in constant flux; where intuition, chance, play and physics determine his connection with objects and images within specific contexts. Through different methodologies of research and production, several ideas take specific states and forms in each project. This generates a heterogeneous and changing body of work with multiple layers of reference and meaning. A system where things create complexity in other logics and everything fluctuates between order and chaos.
Lamas has had solo exhibitions at the Espai 13 of the Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona (Spain), at CCC OD Tours and at La Borie (France), at Tenderpixel, London (United Kingdom), Sabot, Cluj (Romania), at Brand New Gallery and Spazio Tripla, Bologna (Italy), at Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara (Mexico), at Galería Lucía de la Puente in Lima (Peru), at Marion De Canniére, Antwerp and Meessen, Brussels (Belgium).
His work has recently shown at mumok, Vienna (Austria), the HOW Art museum, Shanghai (China), the Kunsthalle Mulhouse, at M.O.C.O., Montpellier, at the Petit Palais, Paris and the Carré d'Art, Nîmes (France), at CAB Art Center and Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels and at Lokaal 01, Antwerpen (Belgium), at Witte de With in Rotterdam and Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), at CCCC, Balencia (Spain), at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (Poland), at Platform Centre in Winnipeg (Canada), at the Biennale of photography at MAC in Lima (Peru), at the EVN Collection, Maria Enzersdorf and Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (Austria).
