Runo Lagomarsino

The work of Runo Lagomarsino presents alternative perspectives on historical, political, and cultural power relationships. Often employing strategies of displacement and transformation to question the writing of history, especially within the context of South America, his installations, sculptures, pictures, and films focus on how today’s political and social environment has developed through historical processes and how this creates metaphors and pictures from which we read history and society. Lagomarsino’s oeuvre finds itself within a critical, decolonial project. However, in doing so, he does not primarily seek to tell other stories, reveal hidden truths, or construct new historical narratives from the perspective of the colonized. Rather, his work aims to recount the same stories in different ways , uncovering conflicting dependencies and complex political events without reducing their inevitable ambiguity. To search for fractures, for blind paths from where to tell other stories, from where to unlearn, and, particularly, from where to read the past and name the future. Born in Sweden to exiled Argentinian parents who descended from Italian émigrés who fled Europe during the First World War, Lagomarsino’s biography charts the very colonial histories that his works examine. Runo Lagomarsino (b. 1977, Lund, Sweden) lives and works between Malmö and São Paulo. Some of the artist’s solo exhibitions include É o caminho de casa que nos afasta , Mendes Wood DM and Galeria Vermelho , São Paulo (2024); We are here because you were there , Base , Florence (2023); The Inner Circles , Mendes Wood DM , Brussels (2021); The Square between the Waves , Konsthall Lund , Lund (2021); I am also smoke , Galerie Nordenhake , Stockholm (2020), We believe to be a land and the truth is we are barely a landscape , Kulturparken Småland , Utvandrarnas Hus , Växjö (2019); We are each other’s air , Francesca Minini , Milan (2019); Concentrations 61: Runo Lagoma rsino , EntreMundos , Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas (2018); La Neblina , Galeria Avenida da Índia , Lisbon (2018); Nils Stærk , Copenhagen (2017); Francesca Minini , Milan (2016); La Criée Center for Contemporary Art , Rennes (2015); Nils Stærk , Copenhagen (2014); Mendes Wood DM , São Paulo, (2013); Oslo Kunstförening , Oslo (2013); Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation , Stockholm (2012). Lagomarsino’s group exhibitions include (Un)seen Stories – Suchen, Sehen, Sichtbarmachen , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , Berlin (2024); But So It Goes , Closing Soon , Athens (2024); It’s the way home that moves us away , Mendes Wood DM , São Paulo (2024); Feels Like Home – Kiasma’s Collection Exhibition , Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art , Helsinki (2024); I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem , Mendes Wood DM , Paris (2023); Ståhl Collection , Yllefabriken , Norrköping (2023); Linhas Tortas , Mendes Wood DM , São Paulo (2023); La terra nostra è un mostro di mare , KORA – Centro del Contemporaneo c/o Palazzo De Gualtieris , Castrignano de’ Greci, Lecce (2023); Área Play , Silvia Cintra + Box 4 , Rio de Janeiro (2023); The TV Trampoline / From Children’s Television to Contemporary Art and Literature , Norrtälje konsthall , Norrtälje (2023).