Daily Lazy and opbo studio are proud to present LOTA, a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Nadia Belerique, opening on June 12, 2026 at opbo studio in Piraeus, Athens. The exhibition runs through July 11, 2026.

Working fluidly between photography, sculpture, installation, and video, Belerique transforms ordinary materials and everyday spaces into carefully staged environments where perception becomes unstable and deeply physical. Her work is attentive to the subtle systems that organize daily life: the rhythms of labour, the circulation of commodities, the quiet persistence of objects.

At the heart of LOTA is a new video and sculptural installation of the same name, developed during a residency in the Azores as part of the Walk & Talk Biennial in 2025. Filmed inside the sustainable fish auction house of Ponta Delgada, the work transforms the market into a stage in which the circular motion of the conveyor belt offers an allegory for the cycles of extraction, consumption, and decay that govern both human and ecological economies.

Under the glare of cold fluorescent light, amid freshly hosed floors and the lingering scent of salt, ice, and flesh, workers move with the precision of gestures repeated thousands of times. The slick, muscular bodies of tuna slide through as passive participants in this ritual of circulation, productivity and commodification.

Belerique’s camera traces this mechanized dance with remarkable sensitivity: the shimmer of scales, the hiss of water against concrete, the rhythmic beeps of the pricing machine, and the anxious chime of the auction come to form a haunting soundtrack of industrial efficiency. Through its gesture, repetition, and movement, the film reveals the unseen labour embedded within circuits of economic exchange, while exposing the persistent impulse to control and regulate the unruly energy of the natural world.

Accompanying the video is a series of sculptural assemblages made from domestic objects — doors, lamps, wine glasses — that are balanced and stacked upon towers of canned fish. At once humorous and poetic, these works compress the vast infrastructure of the sea into arrangement of domestic survival. The ocean becomes contained within a tin; the tin becomes a pedestal. The distance between the ocean floor and the kitchen shelf is collapsed while the global supply chain and the domestic space are held in equilibrium.

Presented at opbo studio, an industrial space located near the Port of Athens, among the Mediterranean’s largest and most active maritime sites of circulation and trade, LOTA enters into direct dialogue with its surroundings. Within this context, the exhibition becomes especially attuned to the material and economic infrastructures that shape the movement of goods, bodies and images.

The exhibition also includes How Long is Your Winter (Lighthouse) (2026), an in-situ installation occupying the building’s front vitrine. Composed of retrofitted window blinds illuminated from behind by a theatrical stage light, the work functions simultaneously as beacon and searchlight. As the roaming beam continuously grazes the blinds, it conjures the fleeting impression of a private gathering or an ominous signal just beyond view. Oscillating between excitement and caution, the work draws on the architecture of social and psychological access to examine mechanisms of visibility, privilege, and exclusion, while probing broader questions of control, mobility, and the politics of perception.

Across the exhibition, mechanisms of display and concealment operate side by side: conveyor belts circulate commodities beneath the cold efficiency of industrial light, while illuminated blinds obscure a space that viewers can sense but never fully access. In both cases, visibility is never neutral; it is shaped by systems of power, labour, class, and economic exchange. LOTA ultimately asks how contemporary infrastructures — architectural, economic, and perceptual — regulate not only the circulation of goods and images, but also the conditions of access and belonging themselves.     

– Anaïs Castro

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About Nadia Belerique

Nadia Belerique is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. Her practice spans photography, sculpture, installation, and moving image, with a sustained interest in the conditions of perception and the politics of visibility. Her work has been presented internationally in galleries, institutions, and biennials, including the Toronto Biennial, the New Museum Triennial, and Walk & Talk Biennial.

About Anaïs Castro

Anaïs Castro is a curator and writer based between Montreal and New York who has presented exhibitions and projects in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, and China. She is an editorial member of Daily Lazy and publishes regularly with various publications.

About opbo studio

opbo studio is an independent contemporary art space based in Piraeus, Athens, with a focus on contemporary art and the moving image. It operates as an exhibition platform as well as a framework for hosting, developing, and producing new creative projects.

Nadia Belerique, LOTA, 2025, view from exhibition at Walk & Talk Bienniale 2025. photo credit Mariana Lopes

Nadia Belerique, LOTA, 2025, view from exhibition at Walk & Talk Bienniale 2025. photo credit Mariana Lopes

Nadia Belerique, LOTA, 2025, view from exhibition at Walk & Talk Bienniale 2025. photo credit Mariana Lopes