About

My work is polyphonic. Having the "feeling of being in the impulse, in the uncontrollable, and in the fate of repetition" is the form and substance of my reflection and action. Interested in forms of non-communicative language, my work began with sound poetry and performance and is increasingly moving towards deaf, sometimes mute, sounds through painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound installation. The frontal aspect of recent pieces is associated with a strong non-Western tradition of representing space, such as Mexican murals. If, for the West, after the Renaissance, the space of painting and drawing is built with lines of perspective, welcoming the Other in a more or less comfortable place, other presences, especially among the Tupinambás of Brazil, take a more radical stance, that of the plane. In my pieces, I don't open windows, I build markers instead: between nature and the human, between the mother tongue and the voice, between the figurative and the motif. These markers tension these singularities. All of this happens on the plane, in two dimensions (no to the past-present-future. Yes to the past that never ceases to return in the Here). No refuge possible, no saving message, the human is confronted with this constant return. The repetition in each of my pieces evokes a counter-time - that of the repetition of prayer, of the scansion in ritual, of the sacred, unlike the non-human time of the exciting new, when minimal gestures are made until they create a sound mass, where language loses its communicative function and returns to its origin: that of the continuous beating of the tides, that of the wind in the canopy, in the backcountry. Symphony of noises. This eternal return inevitably creates a pattern, a wallpaper tending towards infinity, able to cover virtually all possible surfaces, whether by sound or by line. This paradoxically creates silence by excess. I wonder myself if this silence is in the process of creation or if it reaches the exhibition space.

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Leto William

Resume

Education

2021-2024 - Higher National Diploma of Plastic Arts - Fine Arts of ParisHigher National Diploma of Plastic Arts - Fine Arts of Paris

2019-2021 - Master in Ecology of Arts and Media. Paris VIII University - France.

2015-2017 - Master in Contemporary Artistic Processes. Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

2011-2014 - Bachelor of Visual Arts. Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Solo Exhibitions

2023 - Olho d'água. Espaço Nonono. Torre Orion - Montreuill, França.

2022 - Travessia - Centre Cultural Comunal de Pierrefitte. França

2018 - Marquage - Citè Internationale des Arts, Paris

2018 - Le mur n’est pas en pierre mais du plastique facile à dechiher - Citè Internationale des Arts, Paris

2017 - Notas sobre o subsolo - Memorial Meyer Filho, Florianópolis

2016 - Ocupação Mesmo - Casa de Cultura Dide Brandão, Itajaí, em parceria com Silfarlem Oliveira

2014 - Como se achar no mar profundo? - Sesc Londrina

2014 - Só te olharei 140 vezes, e mais uma depois disso - Galeria de artes da UEL

Collective Exhibitions

2024 - Nord-Sud - Beaux-Arts de Paris.

2023 - CRUSH - Beaux-Arts de Paris

2022 - HyperNorme - School of Fine Arts of Paris

2022 - 20th Pierrefitte Salon of Plastic Arts

2022 - Au-delà de l'eau. Art Connexion - Lille, France. Performance "L'île vague"

2022 - Coup d'éclats. Louvre Museum. Departement of ancient Greece

2022 - Sobre o tempo, entre os pesos e voos das materialidades - DaP, Londrina. Brasil.

2022 - Tout est là, mais où sommes noùs ? - Municipal Gallery Jean Collet - Vitry-sur-Seine. France

2020 - LivrosLivres. Museu de Artes de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis.

2020 - Au bas, à bord - galeria de artes da Universidade Paris VIII - França

2018 - Opções de Fim de Mundo - Arte Londrina 6, DaP

2018 - Registro N.2 - Casa Baka, Porto Alegre

2018 - MASC 70 anos - Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis

2017 - Políticas Incêndiárias - UFF, Rio de Janeiro, em parceria com Silfarlem Oliveira

2017 - Dizer o que precisa ser dito Itajaí- SC

2017 - Espécies de escuta - Sala de Leitura/ Sala de Escuta, Udesc, Florianópolis

2017 - Projeto Armazém Centro Integrado de Cultura, Florianópolis

2016 - Mostra Usos Impróprios - UFF, Niterói-RJ, em parceria com Silfarlem Oliveira

2016 - Vestígio-Contágio - Memorial Meyer Filho

2015 - Projeto Nomia - Residência Artística "Artist Inside the School", Florianópolis

2014 - O espaço sonha o sujeito - DaP, Londrina

2014 - Exposição Formandos e Ateliê Permanente - DaP, Londrina

2014 - Potlatch – trocas descontroladas em Arte Contemporânea - DaP, Londrina

2013 - Nada do que lembramos é verdade - DaP, Londrina

2013 - Teu corpo eu - Galeria de Artes da Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Artistic Residencies

2021-2022 - Pierrefite's Cultural Center

2022 - La Belle Piscine - piscine du 8 mai 1945, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

2018 - Residência Artística Citè Internationale des Arts – Paris

2015 - Artist Inside the Schooll - Grupo de Estudos Apotheke, Florianópolis

Awards

2017 - Prêmio Aliança Francesa de Arte Contemporânea - 1º lugar. Aliança Francesa

2016 - Prêmio Aliança Francesa de Arte Contemporânea - 2º lugar. Aliança Francesa