About the work

This drawing is a small version, made specifically for the Drawing Room, from a series of works titled ‘Repetitive Movements that Make and Unmake the World’. These drawings notate actions like opening a door, tying shoe laces, or stirring a cup of tea, that are so common as to become automatic. In order to produce these drawings I return these movements to conscious attention, sensing also what parts of my body are activated by attention or touch as I carry them out. I reproduce the movements until I end up with a very specific choreography. This action sequence is drawn as a line, following the direction of the movement and also of my attention as it flows through a bending thumb, the palm of the hand, or a pinkie finger. Encircled spaces are coloured in, and surprisingly suggest anatomy, as if my body’s interior were imprinted in its actions.

Date and country of birth

1981, Yolanda

Career Highlights

Juliana Cerqueira Leite is an ambidextrous sculptor. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art’s Sculpture MFA program in 2006 as recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize. She then completed an MA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in Biennials, group and solo exhibitions world wide including the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology; the Bergen Assembly Triennial; the National Archaeological Museum of Napoli; and most recently Nogueras Blanchard gallery, Madrid; KW Institute in Berlin. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum and Frieze Magazines.