Lais Myrrha’s work addresses the instruments that mediate the occupation of space and legitimize official narratives. Through installation, sculpture, objects, video, and other media, the artist highlights the relationship between physical and symbolic place, emphasizing the arbitrary character and power discourses embedded in conventions and systems of representation. Fundamentally, her work is organized into four areas, which often intersect: Atlas, Zone of Instability, Case Studies, and Chronicles.

The first comprises a series of works with maps, measuring instruments, dictionaries, almanacs, and books in which the artist intervenes, making visible and, therefore, denaturalizing methods and systems of representation, as well as their parameters and landmarks. Zone of Instability is made up of works in which permanence and balance seem flawed and/or precarious. Case Studies highlights elements of architecture and modernism, mainly through the images produced by architecture, which operate as a projective machine of phantasmagoria and power. Finally, Chronicles consists of visual and textual comments on ordinary events observed by the artist, either through her daily movement across the city where she lives or through the news.

Among her noteworthy solo shows are Contraplano, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil (2026); Arquiteturas do Poder, Cerrado Cultural, Brasília, Brazil (2026); Fundamentos da Pedra, Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); O condensador de futuros, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Infinite Column, Blanton Museum, Austin, USA (2017); Reparation of Damages, Broadway 1602, New York, USA (2017); Corpo de Prova, Sesc Bom Retiro, São Paulo, Brazil (2017); Projeto Gameleira 1971, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil (2014); and Border Game, Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (2009).

Among her group exhibitions, the following stand out: the 37th Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM São Paulo, Brazil (2022); the 13th Bienal de La Habana, Cuba (2019); the 12th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2018); the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2016); and Avenida Paulista, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil (2017).

Myrrha was awarded the Prêmio Honra ao Mérito Arte e Patrimônio, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013); the Bolsa Funarte de Estímulo à Produção em Artes Visuais, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2012); and the Bolsa Pampulha of the Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2003).

Her works are featured in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art: The University of Texas, USA; Fundação de Serralves, Portugal; Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR, Brazil; and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil.