Lucas Arruda

Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda’s (b. 1983) meditative compositions blur the lines between mnemonic and imaginative registers. His evocative landscapes are more a product of a state of mind than any particular locale. As he notes, "The only reason to call my works landscapes is cultural—it’s simply that viewers automatically register my format as a landscape, although none of the images can be traced to a geographic location. It’s the idea of landscape as a structure, rather than a real place."