Juliana Cerqueira Leite, ‘Shovel’, ‘Button’ and ‘Sand’, 2024
The New York artist’s three works – part of this year’s free display in The Regent’s Park – take everyday movements as starting points
The New York artist’s three works – part of this year’s free display in The Regent’s Park – take everyday movements as starting points
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Shovel, Button and Sand, 2024
Stainless steel, Forton MG, oxide pigment, basalt, glass fibres. Presented by TJ Boulting
About the Work
These three sculptures by Juliana Cerqueira Leite are part of the series ‘Repetitive Movements That Make and Unmake the World’. This series includes drawings and sculptures that focus on commonplace actions, such as tying shoelaces or turning the pages of a book. The artist turns these movement sequences into precise choreographies which are captured in line drawings that resemble anatomical structures.
The sculptures in this series see the movements returning to their three-dimensionality through stainless steel bars bent to follow each action’s envelope. The three repetitive actions we see translated into sculpture here are digging with a shovel, the buttoning of jeans and the sanding of a wall. Sections where lines intersect and enclose space visually, are ‘filled in’ with pigmented concrete, reinforcing the sense of time and the shifting presence of a body in motion.
About the Artist
Juliana Cerqueira Leite (b. 1981, Brazil; lives and works in New York) works with her own body, often inside large volumes of material, to engage the history, contexts and possible futures of representing the human form.
Awards and prizes include the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize (2006); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019) in support of her solo exhibition ‘Orogenesi’ at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples; and the Furla Art Prize (2016) for her contribution to the Fifth Moscow Young Art Biennale. Cerqueira Leite has exhibited her work in group at the KW Institute, Berlin; Sculpture Center, New York; Saatchi Gallery, London; the 2017 Venice Biennale Antarctic Pavilion; Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht; and Hordaland Kunstsenter for the 2019 Bergen Assembly. Solo shows include Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo); Cass Sculpture Foundation (UK); Regina Rex and Arsenal Contemporary (New York).
Frieze Sculpture is in The Regent’s Park, 18 September – 27 October 2024. No booking required, it is free and accessible to all.
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Main Image: Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Sand, 2024. TJ Boulting. Frieze Sculpture 2024.Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze
