São Paulo, Brazil, 1988.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Flora Leite is an artist and researcher. Her work moves through both independent and institutional spaces, where she proposes installations, texts and debates. Flora develops strategies to investigate the materiality of the world and her own field of work. By asking what (hi)stories and fictions do objects and spaces carry, Leite produces subterfuges of observation and negotiation of meaning, in art spaces and out of them.
“ Chuá”, 2022. Duration 3’39”
“ Cruzeiro do Sul 27.04.18. ”, 2018. Duration 2’03”
The action consisted in releasing the 5 fires referring to the stars of the constellation on the night of Friday, 04/27/2018, at 9pm. The date refers to the day when Mestre João, scientist of Pedro Álvares Cabral’s ship, described the Southern Cross for the first time.
“ Mortinha”, 2019. Duration 7’06”
A cutout allows you to see inside the display case. And inside is a mermaid swimming in a glass of water.
“ Trabalho Morto”, 2020. Duration 19’39”
Casa de Cultura do Parque. An exercise in imagination based on mourning processes.
“ Negociação”, 2020. Duration 12’01”
Casa de Cultura do Parque. An experimental exercise by Ana Matheus Abbade and Flora Leite, where words, sounds, and images are negotiated.
“ Flora Leite para Ana Dias Batista”, 2020. Duration 3’44”
Flora accepts an invitation from Ana to project a video onto the water in the bathroom sink of her house, in reference to “Mortinha” (2019), Flora’s work in which images of a mermaid were projected onto a glass of water. The video projected in the bathroom is Ana’s “The Octopus Routine” (2018), the record of a synchronized swimming performance in the heated pool of a mansion. Part of the project “Ao Ar, Livre”, curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto.
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“ As condições de produção do Artista ”, 2020. Duration 100’16”
“ Quando as estrelas descem à terra”, 2018. Duration 24’00”
Analysis of the astrological astrological chart of the Centre Pompidou, for the occasion of Hors Pistes 2018 | La Nation et ses Fictions – Centre Pompidou. Presented on February 4, 2018, by invitation of Janaína Wagner, Video – 24 min.
“ Lesma ”, 2017. Duration 1’35”
Exhibition Boca do Céu, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade.
“ Meteoro”, 2017. Duration 1’06”
Exhibition Boca do Céu, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade.
“ Gozadinha”, 2017 . Duration 1’32”
Exhibition Boca do Céu, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade.
“ Fly me”, 2015. Duration 18’00”
Science fiction short film. Part of Project Ronda – Part 1.
“ Trabalho de Ronda”, 2020. Duration 19’42”
In this work, the nautical structure of a lighthouse was moved to the mountains in the interior of southern Minas Gerais. The artists designed and built a mobile, portable and automatic three-dimensional piece that was taken successively to Pico do Selado, on the border of the state of Minas Gerais and São Paulo (Brazil). During the six month period the artists spent nights operating the lighthouse in approximately 5 different expeditions. Making of the project Ronda Parte -1, directed by Alexandre Wahrhaftig.
She has held solo shows in institutions such as Centro Cultural São Paulo (2011) and Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (2017), besides commissioned projects for aarea.co (2018), arte_passagem (2019) and Casa de Cultura do Parque (2020). Leite has participated in group exhibits at spaces like Olhão (2019), Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (2017) Caixa Cultural – RJ (2015), SESC-SP (2015), and Instituto Cervantes (2012), besides other art spaces and galleries. Artistic residencies have had an important role in fostering moments of intense research and production, from Casa Tomada to Red Bull Station, including activities at São João Residency and Ateliê Fonte. Flora has also participated in PIESP, an independent study program directed by Adriano Pedrosa (2011-2012).
Although her career started by a very traditional path – open calls and prizes, in institutions such as Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2010), Instituto de Arte Contemporânea (2010) and the Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto (2010; 2015) — independent spaces soon began to play a significant part in her work. After presenting her research in a few of them, she then became a producer at .Aurora (2014-2016) and Intervalo Escola (2016). Soon afterward, she coordinated Ateliê397 between 2017 and 2018. Those experiences broadened the meaning and possibilities of the artist’s role in her view, and since then she has been organizing public programs, such as Trela (Ateliê397, 2018) and Women in Contemporary Art (SESC/CPF), and participating in several debates, mostly focused on labor issues in the art field (Pivô Research, 2020). Her works are in collections such as CCSP and MARP, besides others. In 2022, she finishes her master’s in Visual Arts in the University of São Paulo, and is participating in the Casa-Escola independent program at Casa do Povo. Lives and works in São Paulo.
