HUGO LAMI

Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Contemporary | 2022

 
 

Hugo Lami lives and works in London (1994)

Lami's work addresses our social dependence and identity crisis caused by the absurdity of the digital and virtual worlds. His paintings depict dreams of utopic landscapes, Chimeras and ghosts that try to make sense of themselves through metamorphoses.

 

Between Black and White (Red) | 2022

Between Black and White (Purple) | 2022

Between Black and White (Blue) | 2022

 
 

Hugo Lami obtained a Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and a Degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. Lami has exhibited in galleries and institutional spaces around the world since 2014. He recently exhibited at the Zona Maco in Mexico City. In 2021 he was awarded the Emerging Artist Award by the Tsivrikos Shake Gallery, London. His first public sculpture was made in 2018 and is located in Ermioni, Greece. Over the years he has participated in several artistic residencies, in 2021 Aneffort Art in London, and in 2020 as Artist in Residence at Muse at 269, and 'Re-connect' on a commission for the organization Sustainability First. 

 

Pride and Seek | 2022

Copy and Paste | 2022

 

Society of Spectacle | 2022

Paste and Copy | 2022

 

His most recent Solo shows were 'Over The Clouds' in 2022 at The Muse 269 and 'Life Found on the Moon' in 2021 at Tsivrikos Shake Gallery. His most recent Group shows were 'Salon' and 'Metamorphosis' at Tsivrikos Shake in 2022, Ingram Prize at Unit 1 Gallery, and  ‘In the Kingdom of Clouds’ at the Museum of the Arts in Sintra in 2021. This year Hugo has been selected for a residency at Hestercombe Gallery in Somerset.

 
We live in a time where the present is saturated with the past and the future starves for a vision beyond anything imagined before. Hauntology insists that there is a future where political restoration and cultural innovation based on the past are possible in postmodernity. In the Virtual World, the possibilities of what you can do and Who you can be are endless. I use painting to make sense of our technological and cultural evolution.

I could never let go of the relationship between me and the physical materials. In the end, it’s squeezing the paint out of the tube, mixing it, and applying it to the canvas that makes me live in the moment.
In my work, you can find references to technology and nature. These two concepts often blend in my dreams, to create utopic landscapes, Chimeras, and ghosts unrestrained from the laws of physics. They are trying to define their identity. They are looking to adapt and update themselves to a reality, where what you see is no longer necessarily what you should believe.

Using AI technology as a tool to visualize my subconscious helps me think painting. I see it as a collaboration between what there was and what will be. We don’t exist just in the physical world anymore, and this is why I also create augmented realities that expand the paintings to a different universe. Now they also exist in the Clouds.
— HUGO LAMI

Incognito. | 2021

 
 
 

Placeless | 2021