Principal work
Woman in Chains
A material composition of strong impact, in which wine corks and cork transform into narrative surface and figurative presence.
A face built of fragments: each cork holds a gesture, a toast, a moment in time.
Woman in Chains is among the most representative works of Luciana Vilas Boas's practice: an interweaving of corks, cuts, and textures that builds a face and body made of accumulated memory.
Each cork element preserves the mark of wine, the convivial gesture, and time passed. The composition does not conceal the origin of the material: it makes it integral to the visual narrative.
The work invites a slow, tactile, and contemplative reading: a gaze that moves between detail and whole, between fragment and figure.
