Leandro Erlich, “You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat it Too”, 2022

O trabalho de Leandro Erlich explora os artifícios da visualidade, através de jogos de percepção e sentidos. A arquitetura do quotidiano é um tema recorrente na sua obra, com a qual cria paradoxos entre o que acreditamos e o que vemos, com situações de mistério e interrogação. Essa transgressão de limites provoca uma instabilidade não apenas das crenças absolutas, mas também dos limites da própria arte e das instituições legitimadoras. Por meio de instalações, esculturas, fotografias e vídeos, o artista simula situações, de maneira a desarticular nossa experiência cotidiana e nosso entendimento do comum.

Leandro Erlich’s work explores the artifices of visuality, through sensory and perceptual games. Everyday architecture is a recurrent theme in his work, with which he creates paradoxes between what we believe and what we see, with situations of mystery and questioning. This transgression of limits destabilizes not only our absolute beliefs, but also the limits of art and the legitimizing institutions. Through installations, sculptures, photographs and videos, the artist simulates situations that dislocate our everyday experience and our understanding of the common.

He has held solo shows at many important institutions, most notably: the roaming of the venues of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - CCBB, Brazil (2021-22), Sea World Cultural Center, China (2021), Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (2020); MALBA, Argentina (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2013); Barbican Centre, London, England (2013); the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo (2009); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2008); PS1 MoMA, New York, USA (2008); and the Museo del Barrio, New York, USA (2001). Group shows he has participated in most notably include the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León – MUSAC, Spain (2022), Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2016); the Singapore Biennial (2008); the Venice Biennale, Italy (2001, 2005); the Bienal de São Paulo (2004); the Busan Biennale, South Korea (2002); the Bienal de la Habana, Cuba (2000); the I Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (1997); and an exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2012). His work figures in public and private collections, such as those of the 21st Century Museum of Art Kanazawa (Japan); the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (USA); the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (France); the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy); the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA); Daros-Latinamerica (Switzerland); the Fond National d'Art Contemporain de France (France); and Tate Modern (England).