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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present the first gallery exhibition in the United States of Brazilian artist Laura Lima. Titled, I hope this finds you well., this will be the artist鈥檚 first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from February 21鈥� April 4. Since the mid--1900s Lima鈥檚 practice has been a domain for transgression鈥攃ontinually escaping traditional classifications, her work attempts to visually articulate a personal glossary of concepts that the artist has worked and reworked over the course of her career. The conceptual structure of Lima鈥檚 work is underpinned by the equation 鈥淢an=flesh/Woman=flesh.鈥�  First conceived by the artist in a group of works by the same name, the concept of 鈥淢an=flesh/Woman=flesh鈥� transcends hierarchies and explores the binary of the living and non-living. For Lima there is no hierarchy: humans, animals, and even spaces are tethered to the same plane, as matter, flesh, or bodies. This exhibition presents four distinct bodies of work that subvert common classification and invite the viewer to look again and re-conceive the established language of art. The exhibition, I hope this finds you well., insinuates communication involved in an effort to achieve something, be it a certain understanding or the act of translation; taking on concepts of adaptation and metamorphosis as a result of translation from one body to another.