Lucas Simões (born in Catanduva, 1980) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. His practice approaches material not as an end in itself, but as a language through which meaning is constructed. Trained as an architect, Simões develops a body of work in which technique and poetics are inseparable, allowing structural logic and intuition to coexist. His research spans painting, cartography, books, photography, paper, steel, and concrete, evolving through a daily process of experimentation. In his recent sculptures and installations, concrete becomes a critical tool to examine brutalist architecture and the collapse of its utopian ideals, revealing forms that oscillate between rigor and fragility, permanence and erosion.
