Lucas Dupin (1985) takes as a starting point for his research the dialogue with the contexts in which he works, often focusing on the universe of the book, of nature, and on the transience of everyday life. His recent works explore the materiality of the book and its modes of production as a basis for creations in different artistic languages, tensioning hegemonic models of knowledge structured by the rationality of the written word and the hierarchy of knowledges.

His most recent exhibitions include Na soma infinita dos possíveis (Galeria Lume, 2025), A parte pelo todo (Centro Cultural TCU, 2023), Bibliofágica (deCurators, 2024), Tempo-revés (Casa Firjan, 2023), and the 13th Mercosur Biennial (2022). He has also participated in important artistic residency programs such as Pivô (São Paulo, 2019), 6º Bolsa Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, 2016), FAAP (São Paulo, 2017), FUNDAJ (Recife, 2015), and The Banff Centre (Canada, 2011). In 2022, he released his first monographic book, A parte pelo todo (PT/EN, 208 p.), which brings together a selection of works produced since 2007 and texts written by curators Cauê Alves and Élise Girardot. He is represented in Brazil by Galeria Lume (São Paulo) and Galeria Murilo Castro (Minas Gerais).

Untitled (lance de dados #3) (2024) is part of the series Bibliomorfa and is made of book fragments and leather. The work stems from the artist’s extensive poetic research into the material and symbolic nature of the book’s and library’s universe.
Through traditional techniques such as watercolor and bookbinding, Dupin subverts encyclopedias, legal and medical books—pillars of Western knowledge and symbols of a model based on reason—transforming them into an organic and mutable library.

In the words of curator Pollyana Quintella, “to profane the book: to manipulate it, cut it, glue it, burn it, paint it; not to destroy it, but to go beyond and beneath its enlightenment project, not to confine the political possibilities of language within the canon of the word.”