Surya, which brings together the work of Veridiana Leite curated by Leonor Carrilho. Surya presents a new body of work from the practice of Veridiana Leite, a visual artist from Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, currently residing in Lisbon. Veridiana paints like she dances. Their loose, spontaneous, almost wild gestures deconstruct our imaginary landscapes and take us to new places, sometimes magical, sometimes dark, where our perception is challenged by other observations. Drawing on references to female figures or important mythological beings in her work, Veridiana presents a series of new paintings and ceramic
Supernova brings together 10 oil paintings on canvas and are part of the most recent production by visual artist Veridiana Leite, a Brazilian from Ribeirão Preto (SP) who lives in Lisbon (Portugal). “A supernova is a phenomenon that occurs when a star reaches the end of its life and produces an explosion that can reach a brightness many millions of times greater than that of the star before the explosion, something comparable to the brightness of an entire galaxy” , says Cristiana Tejo, curator of the exhibition. This is the second
I Used to be a Dancer is a manifesto exhibition by Veridiana Leite. The title may lead many people to explicitly expect the presence of dance in her paintings or even of performance in the artist’s first solo exhibition at Espaço NowHere, but this evocation exists to emphasize the centrality of her dancing body in pictorial work and the intertwining of life. and art (yes, artist studied various types of dance since childhood). His imagery vocabulary is based on his experiences, that is, in the landscapes visited, in the landing
Exhibition held at Residence and Gallery Zaratan Contemporary Art in Lisbon. After a two-month experience in the countryside, in Alentejo, Veridiana outlined some questions related to the natural habitat of human life, the relationship between the body and the body
Veridiana Leite (Brazil, currently living in Lisbon) is a landscape painter. But her landscapes are abstract in composition and color. They are collages of impressions: objects sometimes floating through a hallucinating sky, sometimes quietly resting in a dreamy atmosphere. Veridiana was very productive, but also took time to experiment with small drawings, transparent plastic sheets and an xx-size canvas. In the last week of November she had exhibition entitled Habitat, in Zaratan, Lisbon. She showed work that she made during her residency.
The work developed at the Hangar “Tempo na Janela” is an extension of the series “Through the window” held at the Agora residence in Berlin and at Bhering in Rio de Janeiro. There are several paintings made from the window of my studio in the hangar where I spent two months observing. Colors, shapes, lines, words, gestures and images that create a relationship between the external landscape, Alfama, and the internal landscape, inside the studio. The final project is a site specific of square-shaped paintings, as if they were
Through the window/ Trought the window” The purpose of this project was for all five resident artists to participate in the process of painting the window, which was projected life-size onto the wall.
Art residency, Nena s Contemporary art, Chiang Mai, Thailand. October, 2013. 2 months in nature in northern Thailand.
