“How the water pushed the land and the house...”, 2017
Digital collages, “How the water pushed the land and the house...”2017
59.11cm x 33.25cm
Digital C Type on Kodak Metallic paper
1/3 + 1AP
“How the water pushed the land and the house...”, 2017 a digital collage included in BLOOM, 2017, an exhibition that explored the steady stream of recent online news that focuses on humanitarian crises. These works examine the –often exasperated– gesticulations of individual subjects interviewed by the news as representatives of a certain crisis: a refugee, a soldier, a doctor or aid worker. Gesticulations by politicians and reporters, as they attempt to explain complex issues to news viewers, are also explored in these works. Leite aims to create a permanent register of these bodily means of extending language and the ephemeral articulations that shape and are shaped by the geopolitical landscape.
Leite’s sculptural and photographic work is an investigation into agency, performed through the human body’s relationship to matter and occupation of space. For this exhibition Leite produced hundreds of online-news screenshots, which were then used to produce a new video and photo-collages, and an index of gesticulations.