DOCUMENT is delighted to present Things change quickly, Luísa Jacinto’s first solo exhibition in the US, opening on November 7, 2025.

Jacinto’s artistic practice engages with the protocols of the image, narrative fragmentation, and the tension between excess evidence and obscuration. Working with materials such as rubber membrane, thread, fabric, metal, spray, watercolor, loose pigments, she creates works that establish an increasingly fluid boundary between painting, sculpture and installation.

For her inaugural exhibition at DOCUMENT Chicago, Luísa Jacinto modifies the viewer’s perception of light and space through an installation of works from two recent series, Strangers and Work in Space. Together, these bodies of work imbue the gallery with layers of colors, bleeding into one another and influencing their surroundings.

Suspended from the ceiling, taking over the middle of the space and set against the surrounding walls, several works from the Strangers series—made up of synthetic rubber membranes, folded and draped over suspended LED tubes that act as both support and light source—sway as visitors approach and walk between them. Work in Space is a series that bridges the gaps between drawing, sculpture and installation: colored threads, arranged in a grid-like composition, run across the gallery wall, as if tracing lines with colored pencils.

In Things change quickly, Jacinto’s works form a polychromatic cloud where transparency, layering, and spatial relationships are interdependent of the viewer’s trajectory and attention, constantly shifting.

Luísa Jacinto (b. 1984, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. Solo exhibitions include My shadow is yours, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain (2025); Shining Indifference, MAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2024); The idea of returning, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); Stone-Veil, Artworks, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); We had the experience but missed the meaning, galería silvestre, Madrid, Spain (2018); A single day is enough, Museu Carlos Machado, Açores, Portugal (2012). Jacinto’s works have been shown in group exhibitions including: Exhibit C, DOCUMENT, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); It’s the scenery that moves (joint exhibition with Isa Melsheimer), Brotéria, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); Painting, Observation Field, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); PADA, ASC Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2019); Saudade – Unmemorable Place in Time, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China and Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal (2018). Her works are in the collections of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal; Colecção Figueiredo Ribeiro, Portugal; Coleção Arte Contemporanea do Estado, Portugal; Núcleo de Arte Contemporânea da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, among others.

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