Lucia Nogueira
Lucia Nogueira, No Time for Commas, 1993, battery-operated toy, paper bag, and wood. Bienal de São Paulo.
Lucia Nogueira is included in What Are You Thinking, a group exhibition on view at Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany through October 19, 2025.
What Are You Thinking draws on Susan Sontag’s seminal essay Against Interpretation (1964), which challenges the compulsion to impose meaning on artworks—to turn materials into metaphors and gestures into arguments. Spanning the two galleries of Portikus, the show brings together works by Pablo Accinelli (b. 1983, Argentina), Jason Dodge (b. 1969, USA), Florence Jung (France), Laura Lamiel (b. 1943, France), Lucia Nogueira (1950–1998, Brazil), Laurie Parsons (b. 1959, USA), and Bill Walton (1931–2010, USA)—artists who, across generations and geographies, share a commitment to resisting interpretive capture. What Are You Thinking is accompanied by a free publication developed in collaboration with the artists and their estates, extending the exhibition’s form of open-endedness into print. Comprising artists’ writings, poetic fragments, and historical texts, the material does not offer closure but hopefully ongoing reflections.
To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the Portikus website.