Laura Lima (Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a contemporary Brazilian artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

With this set, Lima establishes a complex conceptual game about the idea of performance; rejects such a definition; and launches new notions about the temporality of exhibitions of these works, in addition to new articulations about this language and that of museums and galleries.

Thus, Lima's works tend to stretch the limits of usual concepts and classifications, based mainly on the use of living beings (''matter'': animals or human beings) in unusual circumstances, causing strangeness and controversial or provocative situations, such as in the works Gala chickens or Pheasants with food.

This is the case of The Inverse, a work that consists of an enormous braided nylon rope whose width decreases from one end to the other that crosses and winds through the exhibition space.

The accusation did not proceed because, in all of Lima's works that include people, the hiring of each individual is contractually and legally accompanied, so that the participant is not forced to do anything that has not been previously agreed.

Laura Lima received in 2014 the BACA, Bonnefanten Prize for Contemporary Art, Netherlands; and, in 2007, the Marcantonio Vilaça Award.