Luis (@ohluix), an artist and architect of Portuguese origin, is based in Geneva. He divides his time between his work at the Department of Spatial Planning and an artistic practice rooted in drawing.

Her artistic practice explores line as a meditative and introspective language. Her process, which is both rigorous and instinctive, draws on a variety of media—such as pens, markers, and sewing thread—applied to surfaces ranging from paper to cardboard, which are often torn, salvaged, or recycled.

His works arise from a tension between control and letting go, where graphic precision interacts with chance and accident. This duality reflects a quest for balance between structure and spontaneity through the line, giving rise to what he calls “inner territories” or “topographies of the intimate.”

Luis’s works “bear within them the trace of a profoundly human back-and-forth between order and chaos, between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the abstract. “In these drawings, there are archetypal forms and graphic compositions whose laws seem to be the same as those of the plant, animal, or mineral worlds,” Céline Muzelle, art historian, 2025.

Her drawings invite silent contemplation, an immersion in the inner rhythm of the gesture—a practice in which the line becomes thought in motion, and the drawing, a mental landscape.

Her exhibition “Lignes en combustion” is on view at Foound from October 2 through 31.
Don’t miss the exhibition opening on October 24 starting at 6 p.m.