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ARCOlisboa | PULSO
Presented Artists:

Miriam Dema
Lena Laguna Diel

29.05-01.06.2025

'Opening Section'
Curated by Sofía Lanusse & Diogo Pinto
Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon

 What does it mean to paint closeness? To draw memory? To place a body—yours or another’s—on a surface and ask it to stay?

In ‘Pulso’ , a joint presentation by Miriam Dema and Lena Laguna Diel, two distinct practices come into conversation through the language of tenderness. Dema paints from touch: not in the literal sense, but as a felt presence. Her works capture moments of intimacy suspended in memory—figures meeting through skin, through weight, through gestures offered without performance. Laguna Diel approaches from another side: her work traces what remains. She works with fragmentation, opacity, and distance. Her bodies are interrupted, split across surfaces, held in modules. They resist resolution, yet ask us to stay with them.

Both artists center the body, but not as image—as threshold. The body becomes the place where memory enters, where emotion finds form, where contact leaves a trace. Their approaches diverge: one opens from heat, the other from cool precision. And yet, both unfold from an interior world that is deeply felt, deeply observed.

Their dialogue is not about similarity. It is about resonance. Dema brings softness, openness, the imprint of shared presence. Laguna Diel brings structure, reflection, and the quiet clarity of introspection. One evokes the moment of contact; the other, what lingers after. 

And yet, something pulses between them. A shared attention to what unfolds in silence. A commitment to process as a form of self-recognition. A generational kinship shaped by nostalgia, by restraint, by the desire to feel more deeply in a world that often asks us to feel less.

Their works do not reflect each other—they respond to one another. One opens the door, the other asks what remains inside. Together, they suggest that intimacy is not something to be illustrated or explained. It is a space to be inhabited. Carefully. Fearlessly. With the kind of attention that leaves a mark.


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