Nuno da Luz / Works

Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Mosab Abu Toha), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique. Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Mosab Abu Toha), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique.
Exhibition view: Airs, Nuno da Luz, 2024. Galeria Vera Cortês Exhibition view: Airs, Nuno da Luz, 2024. Galeria Vera Cortês
Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Zaina Alsous), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Zaina Alsous), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique
Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Naomi Shihab Nye), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Naomi Shihab Nye), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique
Nuno da Luz, Airs, 2024. Galeria Vera Cortês Nuno da Luz, Airs, 2024. Galeria Vera Cortês
Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Dareen Tatour), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique. Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Dareen Tatour), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique.
Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Fadwa Tuqan), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique. Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Fadwa Tuqan), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique.
Nuno da Luz, Wave Turbulence on Thin Plate – Nazaré Oceanic Buoy, 2019. Wind gong vibrating according to ocean wave turbulence gathered by the Nazaré oceanic buoy between September 2017 and September 2018, and compressed into 60 minutes. Gong, sisal rope, contact speaker, loudspeaker cable, amplifier, sound. 60′ (loop), dimensions variable Nuno da Luz, Wave Turbulence on Thin Plate – Nazaré Oceanic Buoy, 2019. Wind gong vibrating according to ocean wave turbulence gathered by the Nazaré oceanic buoy between September 2017 and September 2018, and compressed into 60 minutes. Gong, sisal rope, contact speaker, loudspeaker cable, amplifier, sound. 60′ (loop), dimensions variable
Exhibition view: Poetry as an echological survival, Nuno da Luz, Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019 Exhibition view: Poetry as an echological survival, Nuno da Luz, Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019
Exhibition view: Poetry as an echological survival, Nuno da Luz, Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019 Exhibition view: Poetry as an echological survival, Nuno da Luz, Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019
Exhibition view: Transverberation, Nuno da Luz, Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019 Exhibition view: Transverberation, Nuno da Luz, Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019
Performance / Concert by duo Gabriel Ferrandini (drums) and Pedro Sousa (saxophone). In response to and in dialogue with the installation Transverberation, by Nuno da Luz Performance / Concert by duo Gabriel Ferrandini (drums) and Pedro Sousa (saxophone). In response to and in dialogue with the installation Transverberation, by Nuno da Luz
Nuno da Luz, Musique Concrète (VF270), 2019. PVC, paper risography. 148 x 105 x 5 cm Nuno da Luz, Musique Concrète (VF270), 2019. PVC, paper risography. 148 x 105 x 5 cm
Nuno da Luz, The forest is the school (for Pedro Neves Marques), 2017. Lenticular print, 84,1 x 59,4 cm Nuno da Luz, The forest is the school (for Pedro Neves Marques), 2017. Lenticular print, 84,1 x 59,4 cm
Exhibition view: RWSNK ECHOS, Nuno da Luz, Kunstraum Botschaft, 2017, with posters for Week 5 / Echo 5 Dschungel Hurlante Exhibition view: RWSNK ECHOS, Nuno da Luz, Kunstraum Botschaft, 2017, with posters for Week 5 / Echo 5 Dschungel Hurlante
Nuno da Luz, Untitled (for Eleanor Weber), 2015. Survival blankets, aluminium rail 3.60 x 10.87 m. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015 Nuno da Luz, Untitled (for Eleanor Weber), 2015. Survival blankets, aluminium rail 3.60 x 10.87 m. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015
Nuno da Luz, Untitled (for Eleanor Weber), 2015. Survival blankets, aluminium rail 3.60 x 10.87 m. Nuno da Luz, Untitled (for Eleanor Weber), 2015. Survival blankets, aluminium rail 3.60 x 10.87 m.
Nuno da Luz, Ella Megalast Burls Forever, 2013/2015 Bench, drywall, bass transducer, loudspeaker cable, amplifier, audio player, 224’00’’ (loop). Variable dimensions. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015 Nuno da Luz, Ella Megalast Burls Forever, 2013/2015 Bench, drywall, bass transducer, loudspeaker cable, amplifier, audio player, 224’00’’ (loop). Variable dimensions. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015
Nuno da Luz, whenever Eyjafjallajökull, 2015. Video, color, stereo, 13’40’’ (loop). Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015 Nuno da Luz, whenever Eyjafjallajökull, 2015. Video, color, stereo, 13’40’’ (loop). Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015
Nuno da Luz, Bullroarers, 2015 Skateboards, trucks, wheels, bearings, grip, 9000 volts. 80 x 20 x 10 cm Nuno da Luz, Bullroarers, 2015 Skateboards, trucks, wheels, bearings, grip, 9000 volts. 80 x 20 x 10 cm
Nuno da Luz, Bullroarers, 2015 Skateboards, trucks, wheels, bearings, grip, 9000 volts. 80 x 20 x 10 cm Nuno da Luz, Bullroarers, 2015 Skateboards, trucks, wheels, bearings, grip, 9000 volts. 80 x 20 x 10 cm
Nuno da Luz, “One might say that a firework is nothing other than a tree or a big artificial flower that grows, blooms, and dies in the course of a few seconds. After that it withers and falls to the ground in unrecognizable shreds. Well then, let us take this firework and make it last a month, stretching the time element but leaving everything else as is. What we get will be a flower, with all the visual characteristics of other flowers. Or let us imagine the seed of a tree might explode like a bomb.”, 2015 Photo-luminiscent screenprint on paper. 100 × 70 cm. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015 Nuno da Luz, “One might say that a firework is nothing other than a tree or a big artificial flower that grows, blooms, and dies in the course of a few seconds. After that it withers and falls to the ground in unrecognizable shreds. Well then, let us take this firework and make it last a month, stretching the time element but leaving everything else as is. What we get will be a flower, with all the visual characteristics of other flowers. Or let us imagine the seed of a tree might explode like a bomb.”, 2015 Photo-luminiscent screenprint on paper. 100 × 70 cm. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015
Nuno da Luz, “One might say that a firework is nothing other than a tree or a big artificial flower that grows, blooms, and dies in the course of a few seconds. After that it withers and falls to the ground in unrecognizable shreds. Well then, let us take this firework and make it last a month, stretching the time element but leaving everything else as is. What we get will be a flower, with all the visual characteristics of other flowers. Or let us imagine the seed of a tree might explode like a bomb.”, 2015 Photo-luminiscent screenprint on paper. 100 × 70 cm. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015 Nuno da Luz, “One might say that a firework is nothing other than a tree or a big artificial flower that grows, blooms, and dies in the course of a few seconds. After that it withers and falls to the ground in unrecognizable shreds. Well then, let us take this firework and make it last a month, stretching the time element but leaving everything else as is. What we get will be a flower, with all the visual characteristics of other flowers. Or let us imagine the seed of a tree might explode like a bomb.”, 2015 Photo-luminiscent screenprint on paper. 100 × 70 cm. Exhibition view: Wilderness, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2015
Nuno da Luz, O nosso silêncio é um aviso / O nosso silêncio é sólido, 2011. Wall heaters, flanel curtains, computer, sound, amplifier, loudspeakers. 5’50”, 4’59” (loop). Each part is followed by the same duration of silence. Exhibition view, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2012 Nuno da Luz, O nosso silêncio é um aviso / O nosso silêncio é sólido, 2011. Wall heaters, flanel curtains, computer, sound, amplifier, loudspeakers. 5’50”, 4’59” (loop). Each part is followed by the same duration of silence. Exhibition view, Vera Cortês Art Agency, 2012
Nuno da Luz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2. Oktober 2009, 2012. Silkscreen on blueback paper 174 × 109.6 cm Nuno da Luz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2. Oktober 2009, 2012. Silkscreen on blueback paper 174 × 109.6 cm
Nuno da Luz, 360 horas, 2009. Stereo microphone outside the space, cables, digital recorder, headphone amplifier, headphones, felt curtain, chairs, reading lamps, photocopy on paper. Dimensions and duration variable. Exhibition view: O Sol morre cedo, Pavilhão Branco – Museu da Cidade, Lisbon Nuno da Luz, 360 horas, 2009. Stereo microphone outside the space, cables, digital recorder, headphone amplifier, headphones, felt curtain, chairs, reading lamps, photocopy on paper. Dimensions and duration variable. Exhibition view: O Sol morre cedo, Pavilhão Branco – Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
Nuno da Luz, Nord/Ost, 2010. Left channel: recordings of the North Sea (Nordsee), in H.rnum, island of Sylt, Germany. Right channel: recordings of the Baltic Sea (Ostsee) in the Jasmund National Park, island of Rügen, Germany. Audioplayer, mixer, rack, cables, loudspeakers, stands. Dimensions variable, 11’10’’ (loop). Exhibition view: in Sardegna tutto è tondo, 2010 Nuno da Luz, Nord/Ost, 2010. Left channel: recordings of the North Sea (Nordsee), in H.rnum, island of Sylt, Germany. Right channel: recordings of the Baltic Sea (Ostsee) in the Jasmund National Park, island of Rügen, Germany. Audioplayer, mixer, rack, cables, loudspeakers, stands. Dimensions variable, 11’10’’ (loop). Exhibition view: in Sardegna tutto è tondo, 2010

Zoom 1 / 27 Nuno da Luz, Sunbird (for Mosab Abu Toha), 2024. Acrylic on survival blanket, aluminium tube, steel wall mount. 160 x 105 cm. Unique.

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Bio

Nuno da Luz (Lisbon, 1984) is a sound artist and publisher whose practice circumscribes both aural and visual in the form of installations, performances and printed matter. Grounded in attentive listening as an eco-sensible methodology and tool, his practice undulates between the ecologies and pedagogies of noise-making, and book-making through the publishing collective ATLAS (in collaboration with Gonçalo Sena). In 2015, he completed the Master Program of Experimentation in Arts and Politics at SciencesPo Paris, and co-founded COYOTE, an undisciplinary collective working intersectionality as both method and topic, crossing conceptual and experimental forms (in collaboration with Tristan Bera, Elida Høeg, Clémence Seurat and Ana Vaz). He is currently conducting a PhD research project in sound art at the School of Arts UCP (Porto), entitled ‘Echologies of Noise’. Recent projects include the solo shows ‘Airs’ (Galeria Vera Cortês, 2024), and ‘Heart of Sky Centro do Vento’ (gnration, Braga, 2021); group show ‘Feral Ballads’ (Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 2024); the monograph ‘Poetry as an echological survival’ (Lisbon/Porto: Documenta/UCPress, 2022); and the double LP ‘Beasts of Gravity’ in collaboration with Joana Escoval (The Vinyl Factory, 2019). During the 2024/25 season, he will be a resident host at the online radio station Stegi (Athens), with the monthly show “environments”. He was a resident of Fondation Carasso’s IN SITU programme (Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2023–24), and a recipient of the Locus Sonus Locus Vitae Creative Research Grant (ESAAIX, Aix-en-Provence, 2022). In 2024, he was awarded Prix COAL Transformative Territories Mention.

Nuno da Luz (Lisboa, 1984) é artista sonoro e publicador cuja prática circunscreve tanto o aural como o visual na forma de instalações, performances e matéria impressa. Radicado na escuta atenta como metodologia e ferramenta eco-sensível, a sua prática ondula entra as ecologias e pedagogias do fabrico de ruído, e o fabrico de livros através do coletivo editorial ATLAS (em colaboração com Gonçalo Sena). Em 2015, completou o programa de Mestrado de Experimentação em Artes e Política em SciencesPo Paris, e co-fundou o coletivo indisciplinar COYOTE – que assume a interseccionalidade como método e tema, cruzando formas conceptuais e experimentais (em colaboração com Tristan Bera, Elida Høeg, Clémence Seurat e Ana Vaz). Atualmente está a desenvolver um projeto de pesquisa doutoral em artes sonoras, na Escola das Artes UCP (Porto), intitulado “Echologias do ruído”. Projetos recentes incluem as exposições individuais “Airs” (Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisboa, 2024), e ‘Heart of Sky Centro do Vento’ (gnration, Braga, 2021); as exposições coletivas Feral Ballads’ (Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 2024) e Biennale Gherdeina 8 Persones Persons (Ortisei, Itália, 2022); a monografia “Poetry as an echological survival” (Lisbon/Porto: Documenta/UCPress, 2022); e o disco duplo “Beasts of Gravity” em colaboração com Joana Escoval (The Vinyl Factory, 2019). Durante a temporada 2024/25, será artista residente na rádio online Stegi (Atenas) com o programa mensal “environments”. Em 2023, foi residente do programa IN SITU, na Cité internationale des arts, Paris, e em 2022, residente do laboratório Locus Sonus Locus Vitae, Aix-en-Provence. Em 2024, foi galardoado com a Menção Transformative Territories do Prix COAL.

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