Leto Ybarra

Raynes Birkbeck at Juf

Artist: Raynes Birkbeck (with readings by Ebun A Sodipo, Juan de Salas and Martyn Reyes)

Exhibition title: You 3.2 men play too much

Curated by: Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra

Venue: Juf, Madrid, Spain

Date: September 30 – November 4, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Juf, Madrid

SNECKDOWN at EACC

Artists: Sam Cottington, Caspar Heinemann, Phung Tien Phan, Deborah-Joyce Holman, David Moser, Alex Dolores Salerno, Francis Whorral, Campell, Quay Quinn Wolf, Leto Ybarra

Exhibition title: SNECKDOWN

Curated by: YABY (Beatriz Ortega Botas, Alberto Vallejo)

Venue: EACC, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain

Date: May 20 – September 03, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of Deneb Martos, Carlos Pascual and EACC

Creating Its Own Occasions As A Stage Does at Juf

Artists: Douglas Kearney, Nikita Gale, Park McArthur, Vijay Masharani, Harmony Holiday

Exhibition title: Creating Its Own Occasions As A Stage Does

Curated by: Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra

Venue: Juf, Madrid, Spain

Date: May 13 – June 24, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Juf, Madrid

SPECIAL FEATURE: In Conversation with Leto Ybarra

The documentaries of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, minimal and postminimal art, body shakers, the lyrebird song, bodybuilding photography, and butch aesthetics all find themselves matching up in the work of artist Leto Ybarra (Madrid, 1991). Her latest show, Neoned, articulates different scenarios where masculinity, theatricality, and artifice are drawn and blurred until almost completing a single body.

Crucial for Ybarra’s work is making visible theatrical strategies that operate in the construction of hegemonic masculinity.  With her multiple references and formats, the artist addresses different aspects of the fabrication and manipulation of reality and meaning. We visited The Ryder gallery, where Ybarra showed her latest work, and she told us about her artistic process.

Neoned is curated by the Yaby collective (Beatriz Ortega Botas & Alberto Vallejo). Yaby is a curatorial project based in Madrid that has worked with artists such as Aria Dean, Claudia Pagès, P. Staff, Angharad Williams, and Bruno Zhu, among others.