The Serralves Library presents the launch of the monograph Nadia Lauro: Scenographies, with the participation of the artist and author Nadia Lauro, editor Noémie Solomon, and Cristina Grande, coordinator of the Performing Arts Department at the Serralves Foundation.

The session opens with an introduction highlighting the close relationship between the artist — whose work is part of the Serralves Collection — and the institution, followed by a conversation between the editor and the artist about Nadia Lauro’s artistic journey leading up to the publication of her first monograph. The discussion will conclude with Cristina Grande joining the conversation to reflect on the ideas and practice that define Lauro’s body of work.

As a visual artist and scenographer, Nadia Lauro has presented her work for several decades across multiple contexts — stage spaces, landscape architecture, and museums. She has conceived sets, environments, and visual installations of strong dramaturgical power, generating new ways of seeing and being together.

Since the early 2000s, Nadia Lauro has created striking scenographies. Her visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets have played a key role in shaping the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe. This richly illustrated book captures these ever-evolving works through multiple collaborations with groundbreaking choreographers and directors such as Jennifer Lacey, Vera Mantero, Benoît Lachambre, Alain Buffard, Barbara Kraus, Emmanuelle Huynh, Antonija Livingstone, Fanny de Chaillé, Latifa Laâbissi, Jonathan Capdevielle, Antonia Baehr, Yasmine Hugonnet, Nosfell, Émilie Rousset, Kate McIntosh, Marion Siéfert, and Meg Stuart.

A newly commissioned series of essays and letters, along with an expanded glossary, shed light on the experimental DNA of Nadia Lauro’s exceptional affective spaces — places that connect us and hold us together.