Leandra Espírito Santo
Bio
She has a doctor’s degree in Visual Arts from USP’s School of Communications and Arts (ECA/USP, SP).
In 2016, she was nominated for a Prêmio Pipa (Pipa Award) MAM-RJ, and was a finalist at Pipa Online. In 2014, she was awarded the Estímulo Prize at the 42nd Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon and won the Visual Arts Call of the Secretariat of Culture of Niterói. Among her major exhibitions, awards and events are: “Instauração” (“Instauration”) - Sesc Belenzinho (São Paulo, 2017); “Agora somos mais de mil” (“Now we are more than one thousand”) – School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage (Rio, 2016); “Quando o tempo aperta” (“When time is running out”) – Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, 2016) and Museu Histórico Nacional (National History Museum) (Rio, 2016); “Novíssimos,” (“Brand new”) at Ibeu Gallery (Rio); 37th Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo, 2013); 2nd EDP Art Prize (São Paulo, 2010). Her work is in Museu de Arte de Rio’s collection.
Statement
Her artistic output covers several media, such as performance, photography, video, sculpture and urban intervention. Employing a comic and ironic language, the artist reflects on our daily procedures, from the most complex to the most ordinary, investigating the relationship between art and various techniques and technologies, putting their uses into perspective and thinking about the relationship we have with them as far as body and behavior are concerned. In 2017, she started a research on the relationships between identity, body and machine, creating a series of works in which she discusses self-representation on social media.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
