Overview

Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s work engages the history of figurative art, re-formulating representation to reflect volition in form. Her practice explores notions of control over matter and the body’s physical translation of will and desire, investigating how form is produced through repeated intention. Primarily a sculptor Leite makes use of traditional sculptural processes and materials while breaking away from the historical visual syntax of figurative representation. Leite makes use of physically demanding activities such as digging, rolling, climbing, and falling, to resolve sculptural concerns, approaching these themes also through drawings, photography and video. Leite’s practice unites performance and sculpture to represent the physical mutability at the core of everyday being.

Works
  • SSDR 05 - Beg for Mercy (Implorar por Piedade)
    SSDR 05 - Beg for Mercy (Implorar por Piedade), 2024
  • SSDR 04 - Jump (Pular)
    SSDR 04 - Jump (Pular), 2024
  • SSDR 03 - Fight (Lutar)
    SSDR 03 - Fight (Lutar), 2024
  • SSDR 02 - Run Away (Fugir)
    SSDR 02 - Run Away (Fugir), 2024
  • SSDR 01 - Freeze (Congelar)
    SSDR 01 - Freeze (Congelar), 2024
  • Ends 01 e Ends 02
    Ends 01 e Ends 02, 2024
  • Limites 01A e 01B
    Limites 01A e 01B, 2024
  • Limites 02A e 02B
    Limites 02A e 02B, 2024
  • Outras Simetrias 02
    Outras Simetrias 02, 2024
  • Outras Simetrias 03
    Outras Simetrias 03, 2024
  • Outras Simetrias 04
    Outras Simetrias 04, 2024
  • Outras Simetrias 05
    Outras Simetrias 05, 2024
  • Outras Simetrias 06
    Outras Simetrias 06, 2024
  • SET OF FINAL SKETCHES
    SET OF FINAL SKETCHES, 2023
  • Urn 8
    Urn 8, 2020
  • Quadruped
    Quadruped, 2020
  • Urn 7
    Urn 7, 2020
  • Urn 6
    Urn 6, 2020
  • Animais Mediados [Mediated Animals]
    Animais Mediados [Mediated Animals], 2020
  • Urn Maracá
    Urn Maracá, 2020
  • Urn Aristé
    Urn Aristé, 2020
  • Urn Marajoara Joanes
    Urn Marajoara Joanes, 2020
  • Corpo Mole 2
    Corpo Mole 2, 2020
  • Corpo Mole 1
    Corpo Mole 1, 2020
  • Anatomical Fictions 01
    Anatomical Fictions 01, 2020
  • Untitled, from the series Study of Repetitive Movements
    Untitled, from the series Study of Repetitive Movements, 2019
  • Contraction 1
    Contraction 1, 2019
  • Untitled, from the series Study of Repetitive Movements
    Untitled, from the series Study of Repetitive Movements, 2019
  • Anthropometry
    Anthropometry, 2019
  • VVV
    VVV, 2018
  • VVV
    VVV, 2018
  • Blind Spot II
    Blind Spot II, 2015
  • Diagonal
    Diagonal, 2013
  • Vertical
    Vertical, 2013
  • Dobra VI
    Dobra VI, 2013
  • Anfora IV
    Anfora IV, 2013
  • Untitled
    Untitled, 2013
  • Curl 1
    Curl 1, 2013
  • Cinq à Sept 2
    Cinq à Sept 2, 2013
  • Column [Pompeii I]
    Column [Pompeii I], 2013
  • Ânfora V
    Ânfora V, 2013
  • Blind Spot
    Blind Spot, 2013
  • Higher Atlas, 4th Marrakech Biennial
    Higher Atlas, 4th Marrakech Biennial, 2012
Biography

Juliana Cerqueira Leite (1981, Chicago, USA. Lives and works in New York, USA)

Selected solo exhibitions: The Swamp of Forever Chapter 4: Origin, curadoria de Carlos Fernandéz-Pello, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain (2021); Convergence, Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice, Italy (2020); Orogenesis, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy (2019); Until Different, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA (2018); Dividual, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); BLOOM, T.J.Boulting, London, England (2017); Positional, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2013). 

Selected group exhibitions: Just Breathe..., curated by Felipe Hegg, The55Project, Miami, USA (2021); Por um sopro de fúria e esperança – Uma declaração de emergência climática, curated by Galciani Neves and Natalie Unterstell, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); The Last Museum, curated by Nadim Samman, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2021); Sette Opere per la Misericordia, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, Italy (2019); Sick & Desiring, with Zoë Claire Miller, Bergen Assembly 2019, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2019); Dear Amazon: The Anthropocene, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2019); The Female Gaze, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany (2018); In Practice: Another Echo, Sculpture Center, Long Island, USA (2018); 1st Antarctic Biennale, Antarctica (2017) e The Measure of Our Travelling Feet, Marres Contemporary Art Center, Maastricht, Netherlands (2017); and Casa Triângulo no Pivô, Pivô, São Paulo, Brasil (2014).

Awards:  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA; and Furla Art Prize for her contribution to the 5th Moscow International Young Art Biennial, Russia.

 

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