Gala Chickens, 2004/2011

Laura Lima uses costume and the human body in her art to question everyday social behaviors. In Gala Chickens, Lima continues to explore ornamentation and social roles via new subjects: chickens in a homemade chicken coop. Lima adorned each chicken with colorful feathers recalling the disguised revelers of the popular Brazilian carnival tradition.

This photograph was part of an installation at the 2011 Lyon Biennial called Une Terrible Beauté est Née (A Terrible Beauty Is Born), after W.B. Yeats's 1916 poem "Easter." The work received many positive reviews and was singled out as one of the most original installations at the Biennial.

"I am more interested in the intricate social relationships, the exchange of behaviors that in time serve to alter our perception of the quotidian, the everyday," says Brazilian-based artist Laura Lima. She is primarily concerned with the human body, using it to question our relationship to the objects, people, and society around us and raising questions about the tensions between the individual and the collective body. In her four major series—Flesh = Man/Flesh = Woman, Dimensional Tattoos, RhR, and Vivia21—Lima subjects the body to physical difficulties and strange rituals, setting up bodily transformations and confrontations between the performer and the audience.

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