FATA MORGANA Sculpture

Lana Haga is a multidisciplinary artist—working in sculpture, painting, and installation—best known for transforming post-industrial matter into new objects, marked by vivid colour and reflective surfaces. From a visual perspective, Lana Haga’s works are marked by both versatility and continuity as she continues reinventing her artistic practice, visualising and revisiting her message in new forms, processes, and disciplines. At the root of this play of balance and creative queste, there is an ongoing interplay of contrasts: the baroque or vernacular character of the twists and turns of post-industrial matter versus the minimal influence on the overall aesthetics and the serene presence of the final object; the nature of the matter ranging from ancient animal and plant matter to the use of industrialised compounds; or the constant interaction of opposites in terms of soft versus hard, matte versus reflective, organic versus artificial. Her characteristic sculptures are the result of a similar transformative practice, using acrylic and epoxy on post-industrial plastic to create her often stalactite-esque colourful sculptures. As an alchemist, she challenges the material attributes and transforms them. By doing so, Lana Haga contemplates the limitations, effects and possibilities of human material in(ter)vention.