Patricia Leite | Untitled (2024)

Patricia Leite | Untitled (2024)[[specs start]] Silkscreen in 17 colours on Somerset Satin White 250gsm 24 x 32cm Edition of 40, signed and numbered [[specs end]] [[work start]] About the work Patricia Leite has created Untitled, 2024 especially for Whitechapel Gallery to accompany the exhibition Lygia Clark: The I and the You, 2 Oct 2024 12 Jan 2025. Patricia Leites edition for Whitechapel Gallery takes as its starting point, a drawing created by the artist and inspired by Lygia

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Silkscreen in 17 colours on Somerset Satin White 250gsm
24 x 32cm
Edition of 40, signed and numbered

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About the work

Patricia Leite has created Untitled, 2024 especially for Whitechapel Gallery to accompany the exhibition Lygia Clark: The I and the You, 2 Oct 2024 – 12 Jan 2025.

Patricia Leite’s edition for Whitechapel Gallery takes as it’s starting point, a drawing created by the artist and inspired by Lygia Clark, who Leite cites as a constant presence in her research. The drawing, originally created in dry pastel on paper, is translated through seventeen silkscreen layers.  

Leite’s paintings and works on paper vibrate between figuration and abstraction, Leite’s practice deals with the movement from a solid state to an inconstant moment. Her layering of materials and colour confronts the audience through its abstraction and vibrancy. Working with her long-standing fascination with light, what may initially be interpreted as a leaf, a horizon or the moon quickly falls away to become an observation of where the ephemeral and the permanent meet. 

Using striking colour contrast such as tropical forest green with night sky blue, as well as abstraction, Leite chooses her building blocks to portray the world in different levels of intensity. Behind her choices lies her desire to capture a moment, drawing from experiences such as basking in the sun in Minas Gerais, watching a carnival parade, or contemplating nightfall on the beach.

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About the artist

Patricia Leite (b. 1955, Belo Horizonte) lives and works in São Paulo. Leite gives an outlet to her memories and latent affections through an extremely particular visual exercise. Photographs capturing bucolic scenes from trips or images extracted from videos that catch her attention trigger a process towards painting. There are multiple references to themes and styles well represented in the history of art, such as landscape painting and pop art, however these resources are used in Leite’s own visual language to express intimate thoughts and memories; much like an old journal or sketchbook full of collected memories.

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Selected exhibitions

Notable institutional exhibitions include Mínimo, múltiplo, comum, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2018); Aprendendo Com Dorival Caymmi - Civilização Praieira, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2016); The Circus as a Parallel Universe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2013); Outra Praia, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2005).

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