Rita Ponce de León
Bio
Rita Ponce de León was born in Lima, Peru, 1982. She has shown her work at the Aichi Triennial "Still Alive", Japan; 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil; Museo Tamayo de México, CDMX; Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; Fundació Miró, Spain; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico), Galería 80m2 Livia Benavides (Peru), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico), New Museum (USA), Centro Cultural Border (Mexico), among others. His works have been published in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013).
He received a grant from the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (FONCA, Mexico), which has allowed him to develop a project with the neighbors of the original town of San Simón Ticumac, in Mexico City.
Statement
Rita lives in Mexico City since 2003, she studied Visual Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", in Mexico. She is currently studying psycho-corporal techniques for human development at the Argentinean organization Rio Abierto, as well as Somatic Movement Education at the Bodymind Movement Center.
Rita understands the work as the way in which each individual can get involved in situations that allow, through artistic and learning processes, the generation of meaningful human bonds, even if these are ephemeral, for which the non-rational encounters that the body often allows to feel useful. It has reached practices such as butoh and workshops that approach the body and movement as detonators of knowledge. She condenses this diversity of processes in drawing as a way to reach her particular thoughts and share them with others.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
