Detanico/Lain
For their fourth solo exhibition at LMNO, the artist duo Detanico/Lain presents Two Voices, a new installation centered around language, memory, and the musicality of signs. With Two Voices, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain continue their exploration of writing as a space of translation between thought and form. Their alphabets, notation systems, or typographic landscapes become meeting points between two voices: that of written language, and the other, more fluid and immaterial, that of the voice. As part of the exhibition, a vocal performance in collaboration with the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel will activate the exhibition space. Conceived as a direct resonance with the artworks, this performance places listening at the heart of the experience. Through voices, instruments, silence, and rhythm, it offers a sensitive reading of the invisible structures that underpin our perception of the world. Two Voices questions how we share ideas, emotions, and knowledge, and how art can propose new forms of translation between disciplines, individuals, and times. Detanico/Lain is a Paris-based artist duo composed of Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain. Working together since the early 2000s, they develop a singular practice that merges linguistic inquiry, scientific systems, and visual poetry. Drawing from literature, astronomy, mathematics, and semiotics, their work explores the invisible forces that shape our perception of time, space, and language. Their installations, animations, and typographic landscapes reimagine systems of notation, creating conceptual yet sensitive forms of writing and representation. With backgrounds in linguistics (Detanico) and graphic design (Lain), they fuse rationality and emotion, creating works that move between archaic codes and digital aesthetics. At the core of their practice is a fascination with the ways we encode, measure, and visualize the world.
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LMNO was established in 2016 by Natacha Mottart, Christophe Veys, and Olivier Legrain. The gallery aims to bridge the gap between life sciences and contemporary art.
LMNO supports artists whose work fosters dialogue across various fields of knowledge, including science, history, literature, and politics. We showcase artists prioritizing environmental and social issues.
Since June 2021, LMNO has operated an artist residency program at Bois de Fa, a 6.5-hectare experimental garden in Grez-Doiceau, located in Brabant Wallon. The garden was designed, developed, and maintained by a team of specialists.
The residency aims to encourage innovative and experimental artistic projects that draw inspiration from the spirit of the place, exploring the future possibilities of a humanity that reconciles Nature and Culture.