GALERIE MAGAZINE
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Luna Paiva: The Seed at StudioTwentySeven | Tribeca
Words Ryan Waddoups
Photo William Jess Laird
Location STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN New York Gallery
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In her most versatile body of work to date, Franco-Argentine artist Luna Paiva transforms cast-off construction materials into glazed ceramic totems that dance between sculpture and function. Curated and scenographed by StudioTwentySeven founders Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska, the show immerses visitors in a Brutalist dreamscape of modular beams, totem cubes, and whimsical structures that practically beg one to climb them. It marks a gleeful shift away from the Barcelona-based artist’s signature monumental sculptures and toward colorful ceramics and colored pencil drawings that draw from megalithic architecture and playground structures alike. “I discovered the satisfaction of creating climbable, jumpable, and crossable sculptures,” she says, “where beauty becomes useful and ultimately meaningful.”
On view September 4th —November 10th, 2025
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