Juliana Cerqueira Leite

Juliana Cerqueira Leite - Scrub B

Technique: Graphite and colored Luminance pencil on paper

Artist Biography: Juliana Cerqueira Leite is a contemporary artist born in Brazil and raised in London. Her work focuses on the relationship between the body and space, and how they interact and influence each other.Leite uses a wide range of media to create her works, including sculpture, performance and photography. His pieces are marked by a minimalist and abstract aesthetic, in which he often uses his own body as a tool for creation.One of Leite's most recognized techniques is clay casting, in which he uses his body as a mold to create abstract forms that are then cast in metal. This technique reflects his interest in exploring the materiality of the body and how it can be used as a tool for creation.Leite's work has been exhibited in numerous international galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, the Nogueras Blanchard Gallery in Madrid, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea.Her work has been the subject of several publications and has been the subject of a monograph entitled "Julianna Cerqueira Leite: Sobreposições" published in 2018.Overall, Juliana Cerqueira Leite's work is characterized by her interest in the relationship between body and space, and her ability to create abstract and minimalist works that explore the materiality of the human body.

 

In the series of drawings, Repetitive motions that make and unmake the world the artist draws the same repeated gesture, overriding its original meaning. Reducing the scale of the gesture to the size of the paper, Cerqueira explores how the repeated action of lifting something (Lift), removing (Stir), knotting (Tie) or unscrewing (Unscrew), give place to strange scribbles or formal records that are reminiscent of the familiar shapes of human vertebrae, bones, or organs. - In the series of drawings Repetitive motions that make and unmake the world the artist draws a line of the same gesture repeated until it overflows its original meaning. Reducing the scale of the gesture to the size of the paper, Cerqueira verifies how the repeated and accumulated action of lifting something (Lift), of removing (Stir), of knotting (Tie) or unscrewing (Unscrew), allows the structuring of strange doodles or formal registers that recall the familiar shapes of the vertebrae, bones or organs of which we are made.