LYGIA CLARK
‘THE SUBTLE BODY’, GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL, KINNING PARK COMPLEX, GLASGOW: FINAL DAYS
5 – 21 June 2026
Lygia Clark, Geometria Amorosa / Loving Geometry, 1955. © Associação Cultural O Mundo de Lygia Clark.
The Subtle Body brings into conversation the archives of artists Katy Dove and Lygia Clark to explore their mutual occupation with bodily knowledge and the subconscious.
Lygia Clark, a cofounder of the Brazilian Neo-Concrete group, made painting and sculpture before abandoning conventional practice to develop psychoanalytical tools, participatory exercises, and healing rituals. Katy Dove’s expansive, collaborative practice encompassed drawing, animation, sound, and movement, underscored by her sustained interest in psychology.
Paying attention to the therapeutic resonances enfolded in both practices, The Subtle Body yields a correspondence between Clark and Dove based on a shared study of the ways that meaning emerges through gesture and sensorial experience, and how their artworks might act upon - and be transformed by - the body. Displaying their works, materials, and documentation in companionship considers the archive as a living, mutable collection with many responsive possibilities.