
poet and visual artist
DIANA LOBO
Transforming words into physical objects.
As a poet, I’m engaged in exploring the boundaries between language and visual art. I work with poem-objects and other forms of tensioning the physicality of a (written) idea.
Praising the subtleties.
I’m also passionate about the pictorial ways the languages can exist: the alphabets, the letters, their meaning combined with their shape or contexts, and also, some alternative writing systems such as notation, Braile, and other human codes.
In a more radical exploration, I’m also interested in using language beyond the semantic content, unfolding different uses of asemic writing.
Touching the hidden margin.
Manipulating matter beyond three-dimensionality, twisting time and space to suspend seconds. Repetitions that generate frequencies, frequencies that generate states, that reconstitute matter itself.
When plastic thinking is quantum,
every word is a prophecy

Awards
2017 Arte Laguna Prize, Sculpture and Installation Category
Group exhibitions
2021 Palavras dentro de palavras, Galeria Paralela no Centro Cultural Oasis, Rio de Janeiro.
2020 Buraco, virtual exhibition, Galeria Paralela, Rio de Janeiro.
2019 Espaço em Si/ Grupo 2020, ocupação Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
2019 Grupo 2020, Galeria Carambola, Rio de Janeiro
2017 Residency Final Exhibition - Central Saint Martins - UAL, London
2017 Arte Laguna Prize/Finalist at Sculpture and Installation, Arsenale, Venice.