Luna Paiva: The Seed
4 September 2025 – 10 November 2025
StudioTwentySeven
New York
241 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
A new exhibition by Franco-Argentine artist Luna Paiva at StudioTwentySeven explores the boundary between sculpture and design through glazed ceramics and large-scale drawings.
StudioTwentySeven will open its second solo exhibition, The Seed, on 4 September 2025 at its Tribeca flagship gallery in New York. Curated by StudioTwentySeven founders Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska, the exhibition features new works by Franco-Argentine artist Luna Paiva, including glazed ceramic sculptures and large-scale coloured pencil drawings.
Widely recognised for her bronze sculptures, Paiva presents a new body of work that marks a shift in both material and intention. The ceramic works—totemic in form—draw inspiration from megalithic architecture and Brutalist design while maintaining a distinctly contemporary sensibility. The accompanying drawings, created with coloured pencil during the COVID-19 pandemic, were first introduced as Aura Colectiva at the 15th Bienal de La Habana in 2024 and offer a more introspective counterpoint to the physical presence of her sculpture.
Image courtesy of the artist and StudioTwentySeven
“As both curators and scenographers of the exhibition,” the gallery notes, “Polo and Onuska have crafted an immersive environment that highlights the dialogue between Paiva’s sculptural works and drawings. Their visionary approach to the exhibition’s scenography further exemplifies their role at the forefront of contemporary design curation.”
Speaking about her process, Paiva said she “discovered the satisfaction of creating climbable, jumpable, and crossable sculptures — where beauty becomes useful, and ultimately meaningful.” She describes the evolution of her colour work as something that “jumped from drawings to the playground, then moved into totem cubes and beams construction – sculptures made from ordinary construction materials, elevated with glazed glass ceramic.”
While The Seed excludes bronze entirely, it represents a continuation of Paiva’s ongoing themes of transformation, materiality and emotional resonance—now explored through ceramics and drawing. This new phase in her practice expands on previous projects such as A Matter of Time, a large-scale installation created for This Is Not America, curated by Zoe Lukov for Faena Art during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2018.
Nacho Polo, speaking to the broader vision of the exhibition, said that “Luna’s work embodies the essence of what we strive to present at StudioTwentySeven — design that transcends utility to become poetic, powerful, and timeless. With The Seed, she has created a deeply sculptural body of work that challenges how we define function, space, and emotional resonance in design.”
Luna Paiva: The Seed opens on the 4th of September 2025 until the 10th of November 2025 at StudioTwentySeven, New York
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