Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de León
(Lima, 1981) Rita Ponce de León understands her artistic work as the way in which she can engage in situations that allow, through artistic and learning processes, the generation of meaningful human bonds, although these are ephemeral, for which non-rational encounters that the body often allows feel useful. She has reached to practices like Butoh (Japanese origin) and to workshops that address the body and movement as detonators of knowledge. She condenses this diversity of processes into drawing as a way to reach her particular thoughts and share them with others, as visual essays.
Bio/CV
Rita Ponce de León
(Lima, 1981) Rita Ponce de León was born in Lima Perú, 1982. She lives in Mexico City since 2003. Ponce de León studied Visual Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”, in México. She is currently studying psycho-corporal techniques for human development at the Argentine organization Río Abierto, as well as Somatic Movement Education at the Center for Bodymind Movement. She has shown her work at the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (Brazil), Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru), Fundació Miró (Spain), Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland), Cuenca Biennale (Ecuador), Sala de Arte Público, Siqueiros (Mexico), Galería 80m2 Livia Benavides (Perú), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico), New Museum (USA), Centro Cultural Border (Mexico), among others.
Her images have been published in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013). She is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA, Mexico), which allows her to develop a project with the residents of the original town of San Simón Ticumac, in Mexico City. She currently colaborates with Tania Solomonoff (coreographer, dancer and therapist), Andrés Villalobos (visual artist and editor), Primal (transdisciplinary studio), Esthel Vogrig (expanded coreography, video, education), Andrea Ancira (writer, researcher and editor) and Esparta Martínez (dancer and Kamishibai Japanese Street Theater editor).
Her images have been published in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013). She is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA, Mexico), which allows her to develop a project with the residents of the original town of San Simón Ticumac, in Mexico City. She currently colaborates with Tania Solomonoff (coreographer, dancer and therapist), Andrés Villalobos (visual artist and editor), Primal (transdisciplinary studio), Esthel Vogrig (expanded coreography, video, education), Andrea Ancira (writer, researcher and editor) and Esparta Martínez (dancer and Kamishibai Japanese Street Theater editor).
Available works
“While you look at us, you take control. We are a feeting image”, 2019
22.8 x 29.5 cm
Ink and color pencil on paper
“Estamos enfermos siempre, nos estamos curando siempre [We are always ill, we are always healing]”, 2020
21 x 23.5 cm
Ink and color pencil on paper
“Rita and Manuel look at eachother in a puddle”, 2016
43 x 52 cm
Ink and color pencil on paper
“Transformatorio (Jesse Cohen)”, 2021
126 x 150 cm
Gouache, coloured pencil and ink on paper
“Transformatorio (Jesse Cohen)”, 2021
122 x 150 cm
Gouache, coloured pencil and ink on paper
“Miranda y Mairim, frente a frente”, 2019
22.5 x 25.5 cm (33 x 36 enmarcado en acrílico)
Tinta china y lápiz de color sobre papel
“Rita y Manuel se miran en un charco”, 2019
43 x 52 cm (51 x 58 enmarcado en acrílico
Tinta china y lápiz de color sobre papel
