Artist: Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Exhibition title: Habitual
Venue: Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain
Date: November 18, 2023 – January 27, 2024
Photography: Roberto Ruiz / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid
NoguerasBlanchard is delighted to announce Habitual, the second solo exhibition by Juliana Cerqueira Leite (1981, Yolanda) in our Madrid space.
New york based artist Cerqueira Leite is interested in the parameters of bodies and the space that they create, her tactile sculptures investigate the abilities and constrains of the human body. “Creating new forms is a mission for me,” said Cerqueira Leite, “a way of not reasserting the world as it is, but of positing a transformation”. Using her own body as a primary tool, Cerqueira Leite digs, combs, scratches, and pushes through her materials —which include clay, latex and plaster— to create organic forms.
For this exhibition, the artist presents a series of drawings and sculptures based on studies of everyday movements, understood as a codified physical language, learned and integrated into culture and which, like many aspects of culture itself, become automatic.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Lift, 2023, Steel, plaster, jesmonite, pigment, wax, 113 × 78 × 20 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Stir, 2023, Steel, plaster, jesmonite, pigment, wax, 80,5 × 53 × 24 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Wash hands (quick rub with fingers interwoven) 4, 2023, Graphite and colored Luminance pencil on paper, 76,5 × 61,5 × 3,8 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Wash hands (quickly leaving thumbs dirty) 3, 2023, Graphite and colored Luminance pencil on paper, 76,5 × 61,5 × 3,8 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Wash hands, 2023, Steel, plaster, jesmonite, pigment, wax, 160 × 40 × 19 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Wash hands (or apply lotion) 2, 2023, Graphite and colored Luminance pencil on paper, 76,5 × 61,5 × 3,8 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Wash hands, 2023, Steel, plaster, jesmonite, pigment, wax, 160 × 40 × 19 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Wash hands (or apply lotion) 2, 2023, Graphite and colored Luminance pencil on paper, 76,5 × 61,5 × 3,8 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Flip, 2023, Steel, plaster, jesmonite, pigment, wax, 17,5 × 80 × 33 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Sit, 2023, CalCast 300 alpha plaster, stainless steel, aluminum, glassfiber, pigment and wax, 140 × 50 × 50 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Lay, 2023, CalCast 300 alpha plaster, stainless steel, aluminum, pigment and wax, 96 × 117 × 53 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Habitual, 2023, exhibition view, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid