Lin Lima (b. 1976, Brazil) is a contemporary Brazilian visual artist whose practice unfolds across drawing, sculpture, and installation, with a strong emphasis on material experimentation and spatial perception. His work develops through two interconnected lines of investigation that together define a cohesive and evolving artistic language.The first centers on organic textures and rhythmic mark-making, expressed through drawings executed directly onto walls, glass, paper, canvas, and wood. These works often emphasize repetition, accumulation, and gesture, creating visual fields that oscillate between control and spontaneity. The second strand of his practice is rooted in sculptural assemblage, most notably through the use of carpenter’s pencils as a primary material. Recontextualized beyond their functional purpose, these objects operate simultaneously as drawing instrument, sculptural unit, and architectural module.Drawing on the formal legacies of Suprematism and Minimalism, Lima reinterprets geometric precision through a more unstable and process-driven vocabulary. Rather than adhering to strict compositional systems, his works introduce movement, deviation, and imperfection as central principles. In this context, the carpenter’s pencil—traditionally associated with measurement and construction—becomes a tool for disruption, generating compositions that suggest topographical formations, architectural fragments, and kinetic structures in constant transformation.At the core of Lima’s practice is an ongoing inquiry into the relationship between order and fluidity. His works propose that structure is never fixed, but continuously reshaped through interaction, repetition, and change. This conceptual framework is reinforced by his material choices, which transform familiar industrial objects into open systems of visual and spatial exploration.In 2025, Lima presented Carpinturas at the Centro Cultural dos Correios in Brazil, an exhibition curated by Thiago SMF that brought together key aspects of his practice, highlighting his sustained investigation into materiality, process, and expanded notions of drawing and sculpture. Lin Lima lives and works in Brazil.