Lenora de Barros studied linguistics and started her artistic career in the 1970s. The daughter of Geraldo de Barros, a pioneer of concrete art, she grew up with concrete poetry, and began her career as a poet, eventually focusing on bringing together word and image simultaneously. Taking inspiration from James Joyce's verbi-voco-visual language, de Barros explores language in all its angles—touch, sight, hearing, speech—by combining images and words (a trend that found its development in Brazil in the 1950s). de Barros is able to transition seamlessly between different languages and media, photography, video, installation, and performance, where text always remains a central piece. Her work is in constant dialogue with the materiality of the word, in the context of the questions posed by concrete poetry, while also flirting with conceptual art, pop art and neo-concretism.