Luciana Maas (1984) has been a visual artist for over twenty years. Her work centers on the visual encounter with the unexpected—within the very act of painting, in attempts to capture the metamorphosis of the pictorial plane in itself. Each of her works possesses singularities and requires a long process to achieve its result: one that feels unfinished, still in transformation.

She has participated in several group exhibitions, including No Body Yet, Galeria Simone Subal, New York (2023); Obra em Processo. Olhar Impertinente, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo – MAC USP (2004); Diante do desconhecido: o Outro, Galeria de Arte Solar, Rio de Janeiro (2017); and Palafitas (2022) at Projeto Vênus. In April 2024, she opened her first institutional solo show, Balanço, at the Fundação Iberê Camargo, curated by José Augusto Ribeiro, presenting works from the last fifteen years.

Her work is also part of the Fundação Iberê and Instituto Paz collections.

Mão (2025) is part of the works shown in the exhibition Bicho Solto, held in 2025 at Sardenberg. The image’s pointed nails blend with the edges of the umbrella, creating a friction that makes the figures appear as an abstraction, or as the specter of an animal.