Leandra Espírito Santo

(this page was last updated in November 2021)

Volta Redonda, Brazil, 1983.

Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

PIPA 2016 nominee.

Leandra Espírito Santo is a visual artist. She started her artistic production in 2010 and develops hybrid works using media such as performance, video, photography, installation and objects. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF / Niterói, RJ), a masters and doctorate in Visual Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at USP (ECA / USP, SP). Her first works problematize some modes of production, putting the artisanal, the artistic and the factory in perspective. Experiencing series production practices, the artist creates tools and machines that assist these processes. Her interest turns to thinking about this overlap between body and technologies, reflecting on a certain circularity of this connection, where it is not known to identify who is subordinate to whom – she still thinks about the standards that are established not only for the objects produced, but also for the bodies that produce them. In recent years, when telecommunication devices have become an attached part of the body, the artist begins a new series of works that are interested in thinking about the way in which the construction of subjectivity has taken place in virtual spaces, the way in which the subject builds his public image, the different languages that emerge in this interaction, as well as the gaps that end up between the reproduction of reality and reality itself.

Website: leandraespiritosanto.net & www.instagram.com/disponivel_holyghost

Video produced by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2016:

Artworks

“Sim, não, talvez”, 2018. Video made from a performed photograph. Duration: 2’’ in a loop.

“Making off”, 2018. Video made from a performed photograph. Duration: 2’’ in a loop.

“Fluxo”, 2018. Stop motion. Duration: 2’’ in a loop.

“Clarão”, 2017, from the “apagamento” series. Video made from a performed photograph. Duration: 2′ in a loop.

“modos”, 2016. Performance register, “My body is a cage” exhibition, curated by Raphael Fonseca, Galeria Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Duration: 3’75”.

“Incubator”, 2014. Performers: Cláudio Tobinaga and Leandra Espírito Santo, filming and editing by Eloi Mattar. Duration: 3’12”.

“How to fill a latex balloon with styrofoam balls?”, 2014. Duration: 4’56”.

From the series “Your master ordered”, 2013. Duration: 2’19”

“Metade da metade”, 2010. Stop motion. Duration: 1’ in a loop.

“ 3 gestos – Leandra Espírito Santo”, 2021. Duration: 1’59”

“ 30 GESTOS – Apresentação do processo criativo da artista Leandra Espírito Santo”, 2020. Duration: 3’41”

“ Por dentro do Atelier – Leandra Espírito Santo | Sesc Jundiaí”, 2020. Duration: 10’40”

Curriculum

Education
2020
– Phd in Visual Arts, area of research: creative processes in visual arts, School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo, CAPES scholarship.
2014
– Master in Visual Arts, area of research: creative processes in visual arts, School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo, FAPESP scholarship.
2009
– Specialization in Art History and Architecture in Brazil, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
2008
– School of Fine Arts in Marseille (university exchange)
2006
– Bachelor of Social Communication, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói/RJ.

Solo exhibitions
2021
– “disponível” – public installation – Fepasa Complex, Jundiaí/ SP, Brazil

2019
– “I only exist in third person”, text and curatorship by Paola Fabres, Fernanda Perracini Milani Art Gallery, Jundái, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Incubator”, text and curatorship by Paola Fabres, Paschoal Carlos Magno Cultural Center, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Group exhibitions
2020
– “Inside the Studio – Leandra Espírito Santo”, Sesc Jundiaí online programming, São Paulo, Brazil
– “National Small Format Salon”, Britânia, Goiás, Brazil
– “How to inhabit the present”, exhibition project #Navitrine, Simone Cadinelli Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Art Licks Tele, Episode 10”, project designed by Holly Willats
– “300desenhos”, 300desenhos.art
– “The Circa Project”, project designed by Fernando Velázquez
2019
– “Beginning of Century”, curated by Germano Dushá, curatorship assistance by Guilherme Teixeira, Jaqueline Martins Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– “The chicken and the egg”, curated by Ulisses Carrilho, Simone Cadinelli Contemporary Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “EmMeio#11”, Lisbon, Portugal
– “Dominó”, in dialogue with Camila Bechelany, Casa da Luz, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Passeata”, curated by Isabel Portela, Simone Cadinelli Contemporary Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
– “It’s all temporary I”, Caixa Preta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Against X Time”, Contemporão, São Paulo, Brazil
– 25º Salão de Artes Plásticas de Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Synapses – The artist’s thinking”, Ufes Gallery, Vitória, Brazil
2017
– “Instauração” performances show, curated by Ananda Carvalho, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paula, Brazil
– “Brand New”, Ibeu Gallery’s Salon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– 42° SARP – Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional, Contemporâneo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Sinapses – O pensamento do artista”, Sala Santander BNDES, Biblioteca Brasiliana, São Paul, Brazil
– “VI Semana Cinerama: Zonas de correspondências”, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Imagens da Natureza”, curated by Hugo Fortes, Espaço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– Lambes na Laje #7, Red Bull Station, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– “Quando o tempo aperta”, winning exhibition of CNI SESI Marcantônio Vilaça’s curatorship prize, held at Palácio das Artes Belo Horizonte and at Museu Histórico Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, winning curator: Raphael Fonseca
– “My body is a cage”, curated by Raphael Fonseca, Galeria Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Agora somos mais de mil”, curated by Marta Mestre, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
– 10º Abre Alas, Gentil Carioca Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– 42º Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Labouring With No Matter”, Circus Street Market, Brighton, England
– “Naturantes”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– 20º Praia Grande Visual Arts Salon, São Paulo, Brazil
– Art Salon of Mato Grosso do Sul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Campo Grande, Brazil
– 21ª Nascent Visuality Show, Maria Antônia Cultural Center, São Paulo, SP
– “Rock, paper, Scissors…”, Federal Justice Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Urban Outlet Act V”, Barra Mansa, Brazil
– “Pianinho”, Sesi Cultural, Barra Mansa, Brazil
– “Seven”, Casamata, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– 37° Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto, MARP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
– Circo Voador Free Arts Show, MoLA 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Bald Rites”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Arts and crafts for all”, Lyceum of Arts and Crafts, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Well Married”, Brazilian Engraving Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– Ateliê COLETIVO 2E1, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– Finalist on the 2nd EDP Award in the Arts, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

Residencies
2019
– Pivô Research Program, Pivô Gallery, São Paulo (Jan – April)

Awards
2021
– Selected Mercosul Biennial 2022
202020
– Awarded for History in Visual Arts- Proac LAB State of SP.
– Awarded in the “Award and Acquisition of Artistic Goods” Edital – Aldir Blanc Law
– Awarded in the Edital “Propostas artistic and cultural virtual inedited”- Aldir Blanc Law
2019
– Awarded in the call for individual exhibitions of the city hall of Jundiai, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– PIPA Prize 2016’s nominee, and one of PIPA Online 2016’s 10 finalists
2014
– Received the Estímulo Award at the 42nd Salon of Contemporary Art Luiz Sacilotto, awarded in the Call for Visual Arts of the Secretary of Culture of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Works in public collections

– Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR/RJ
– Pinacoteca Municipal de Jundiaí/ SP, Brazil
Publications
2020
– “Rio XXI – Vertentes Contemporâneas” , Rio de Janeiro (work indicated in book)
2019
– “Aesthetic interculturality and craft practices Women, feminism and folk art”, México (book chapter)
2018
– Article for the 27th National Meeting of Researchers in Art (e-book)
– Virtual Catalog Performatus Magazine
2017
– “When time tightens”, SESI Marcantônio Vilaça Prize (Catalog)
– “Brand new”, Rio de Janeiro: Ibeu Gallery (Catalog)
2016
– “Evocations of performative art – 2010-2013” (Book)
– “PIPA Prize 2016”. Rio de Janeiro: MAM (Catalog)
– Art Context Magazine, v. 4
2014
– Abre Alas 10, Rio de Janeiro: A Gentil Carioca Gallery (Catalog)
– 21ª Show Nascent Visuality, Maria Antonia Cultural Center, São Paulo/SP (Catalog)
– “Rock, Paper, Scissors…”, Federal Justice Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro (Catalog)
2010
– EDP Award in the Arts, Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo (Catalog)
Commission Membership
– “Selection and curatorial committee” – Call for the selection of artistic proposals for the Sculpture Park of the Casa do Governador Cultural Park, Espírito Santo, Brazil

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