Luis (1984) is a portuguese-born artist and architect based in Geneva, Switzerland. He divides his practice between his work at the Département du Territoire and a personal artistic approach rooted in drawing.His visual universe explores the line as a meditative and introspective...
Read MoreLuis (1984) is a portuguese-born artist and architect based in Geneva, Switzerland. He divides his practice between his work at the Département du Territoire and a personal artistic approach rooted in drawing.
His visual universe explores the line as a meditative and introspective language. His process—both precise and instinctive—relies on a variety of mediums such as pen, markers, or sewing thread, applied to surfaces like paper and cardboard, often torn, reused or recycled.
His works emerge from a delicate tension between control and release, where graphic precision converses with randomness and accident. This duality reflects an ongoing search for balance between structure and spontaneity, expressed through the line—ultimately giving form to what he calls “inner territories” or “topographies of the intimate.”
Art historian Céline Muzelle writes that Luis’s works “carry within them the trace of a deeply human oscillation between order and chaos, between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and abstraction. In his drawings, we find archetypal forms and graphic compositions governed by laws that seem to echo those of the vegetal, animal, or mineral worlds.”
His drawings invite silent contemplation—a moment of immersion in the inner rhythm of the gestur - a practice where line becomes thought in motion, and drawing, a mental landscape.
