LETICIA OBEID PORTFOLIO

LETICIA OBEID
PORTFOLIO
My work and practice is deployed in a wide area covering video, drawing, writing and
installation. In video I have two production lines, broadly speaking: a near-documentary
line, and another investigating certain performative qualities of writing, speech and text.
In both there is a search around the tensions between image and word. In drawing, I try
to tighten the boundaries between drawing and writing; and my literary production also
explores a border between fiction and reality.
So I think that all my work has in common a certain insistence to inhabit the borders
between categories or different things and explore the translations we make between
different or similar but dislocated universes.
I am very interested in the way contemporary art builds and rethinks different forms of
knowledge, making use of common tools, but used in unorthodox ways, without following scientific protocols or, in any case, subverting them. In these processes can coexist
found objects, stories and questions about the display devices of these processes:
sometimes they are books, sometimes it is the space, sometimes action itself and the
traces it leaves.
B.
2008, 58 minutes
https://vimeo.com/37261807
B. is a visual essay and the portrait of a process of knowledge. Using Walter Benjamin’s unfinished book “Passagenwerk” as a point of departure to explore the current state
of those old passages in Paris, the video compares literature with experience, memory with perception and thus
attempts to put in action some benjaminian concepts.
Video made within the framework of the 2007 program of
artistic residences between Buenos Aires and Paris, with
the support of the Ville of Paris, Secretaría de Cultura de la
Ciudad de Buenos Aires and the Embassy of France in
Argentina.
B. stills, minidv pal, 2008.
B. stills, minidv pal, 2008.
B. stills, minidv pal, 2008.
The letter of B.
Drawings, 2007/2012
While I was researching on the Arcades Project of Walter
Benjamin, I started doing a series of drawings copying
his handwriting, after the reproductions of his documents published by the Benjamin Archive in Berlin. In
2012 I made a new series that was shown at the exhibition The life of others, in Akbank Center, Istanbul, 2013,
and in MALBA, Museum of Latinamerican Art of Buenos
Aires, 2014.
The letter of B.
Ink on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm , 2007/2012
View of The letter of B. in the show The life of others,
in Akbank Center, Istanbul, 2013.
Curator: Alejandra Labastida
Dictations
2011, 13:45 min
https://vimeo.com/19461164
Password: sigloxix
Filmed on a train ride from the center of Buenos Aires to
the suburbs, the video documents the action of manually
copying the "Letter of Jamaica" by Simon Bolivar, a
document dating from 1815 and developing the Venezuelan´s political philosophy in the form a diagnosis and
prognosis for Latin America. The tour shows the different
urban, social and economic landscapes of the city of
Buenos Aires and its suburbs, to rethink the ideas in this
text and compare them to the present and to introduce
the problem of translation between these ideas and
practice. Being that a text in which Bolívar raises the
possibility of turning the Spanish colonies into republics
– a text written in the midst of the wars for Independence, a piece that is as much the result of careful observation and speculative thinking, as the movement itself,
ie, is thought and action at a time - the idea for this video
was to contrast the slowness of writing with the speed of
travel, making manual copying text a way of foot traffic in
the action, appropriating the words while the environment is changing.
Dictations
2011, 13:45 min, stills.
Bilingüe/ Bilingual
25 min, 2013
https://vimeo.com/84852298
In 2010, I was invited by a German theater
director to film the making of a piece in the so
called genre of “documentary theater”.
The resulting video shows a series of situations
related to the production of this play that was
performed in Germany involving a German
dancer, an Argentine singer, and three Argentine
musicians from a wichi community. Considering
this unique event -which takes place between
Berlin and Santa Victoria Este, in the province of
Salta (Argentina)- as a starting point, the video
develops a series of reflections and observations
about the experiences and ways in which
different forms of communication and cultural
translation are put into play, along with its
obstacles, bridges, shortcuts and
challenges.
Bilingüe/ Bilingual
25 min, 2013, stills.
Bilingüe/ Bilingual
25 min, 2013, stills.
Bilingüe/ Bilingual
25 min, 2013, stills.
Diamante
Solo show
Galería 713, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
July 2011.
Diamante (Diamond) implies a reunion with the materiality of drawing,
working with the gesture, in pen and ink, and sometimes, but only
sometimes, incorporating a measure of color: red, green, blue.
A Diamond is a cut gemstone, with thousands of facets that reflect the
light (enlightenment and knowledge). But in this case is also a memory
exercise in which archaeological layers appear; a journey to the origin of
images that have been dreamed, imagined, or perhaps remembered:
photo stills that present us Orlando’s love affairs in the novel by Virginia
Wolf, while he escapes from the 18th century to appear in the 19th.
Ornaments that are transformed into women’s clothing; handwriting as
a shape, as an art language. These drawings − a combination of memories and oblivion, of disorderly lines and geometric forms, of erupting
volcanoes and Möbius spirals − were born from the necessity to recover
concentration, the pleasure of the stroke and an intimate silence.
Diamante
Galería 713, 2011, general view.
Diamante
Drawings, ink and pencil on paper. 2011
21 x 14,8 cm (left)
42 x 29,7 cm (above)
Juana y Fausta
2012, 4:20 min
https://vimeo.com/46180312
Clave: charla
(Juana and Fausta)
A hand browses the argentine edition of Jane
Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 's novel, published in a
children's collection called "Robin Hood", very
popular for generations of Argentineans. The
gestures repeats with a book printed in Arabic,
as a counterpoint between the two languages,
two ways of writing and reading . The
illustrations also show two types of aesthetics
in female representation, intervened by a
gesture that recreates the figure of the veil,
trying to find out if stereotypes are in the
picture or in our interpretation of it.
Juana y Fausta (Juana & Fausta)
2012, 4:20 min, stills
Doubles
2013, 10 minutes.
https://vimeo.com/106059341
Password: doppelganger
Doubles compiles fragments of a series of interviews with
Mexican dubbing actors, whose voices are iconic for television and film seen on Latin America from the 60s onwards.
These figures tell stories about their metier, while they also
develop reflections on the role of the task, translation, the
supposed neutrality of language, the relationship between
image and sound, and identity.
Dulce Guerrero, stills
Marina Huerta, stills
Francisco Colmenero, stills
Humberto Vélez, stills
Jorge Arvizu, stills
Doubles at MUAC
(Museo de Arte Contemporáneo,
UNAM), México City, April 2014.
Curator: Alejandra Labastida.
Leticia El Halli Obeid
5/Dec/75, Córdoba, Argentina.
Address:
Roosevelt 4957 -2C
Buenos Aires, Argentina (1431)
Tel. +54 11 4522 4075 / mob. +54 911 3323 9049
E-mail: [email protected]
www.leticiaobeid.com
Education
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (U.N.C.), Facultad de
Filosofía y Humanidades, Escuela de Artes: 1995/2001. Degree
obtained: Licenciada en Pintura .
Awards / Residencies
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Mellon Tri-College Creative Residency at Haverford, Bryn
Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges, Pennsylvania, March-April 2015
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Residency at Casa Vecina, Mexico City, September-October
2011.
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First prize: “Nuevos Narradores” contest, Centro Cultural
Rojas, Buenos Aires, 2010.
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Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, July-September 2007.
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Finalist for arteBA-Petrobrás Prize, March-May 2006.
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Fundación Antorchas fellowship to continue studies in
video, 2003-2004; 2004-2005.
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Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Miami, September-October 2001.
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Participant in “Encuentros de análisis y producción de
obra”, workshops for visual artists organized by the Fundación
Antorchas and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2000 – 2001.
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming:
El canto de Jano, solo show, Galería Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires, August 2015.
Entre el espíritu y la materia, Fundación Migliorisi, Asunción, Paraguay, July 2015.
Curator: Marcela López sastre
Soberanía del uso, Museo de Arte Moderno de Cuenca, Ecuador, September 2015.
Curators: Sebastián Vidal Mackinson & Federico Baeza.
Sights and sounds, Jewish Museum, New York, October 2015. Curator: Inés Katzenstein.
2015
Arte y palabra, Tecnópolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arte y palabra, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires.
Interfaces, Centro Cultural Kirchner, curators: Florencia Battiti, Fernando Farina.
2014
Lo contrario de la magia, MALBA, Buenos Aires, March-July. Curator: Lux Lindner
Dobles (solo exhibition), MACRO, Rosario, March-May. Curator: Lara Marmor.
Dobles (solo exhibition), Museo Caraffa, Córdoba, March-May, Curator: Lara Marmor.
2013
Dobles (solo exhibition). Espacio Cripta, Tucumán. Curator: Lara Marmor.
Dobles (solo exhibition), Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson de San
Juan.
El andar oblicuo, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires. Curator:
Karina Granieri.
Dobles, Premio Jóvenes Curatores, ArteBA 2013. Curator: Lara Marmor.
The right to the city, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Curator: Madelon Van
Schie.
BRAQUE PRIZE, Muntref, Museo de la Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires.
The life of others, Akbank Arte Center, Estambul. Curator: Alejandra Labastida.
2012
KLEMM PRIZE, 16º Edición, Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires, November-December.
HUNGRY CITY, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, September-October. Curator:
Anne Kersten.
RECURSOS, Museo de la Mujer, Córdoba, September-November.
ULTIMAS TENDENCIAS II – DONACIONES INTERRUMPIDAS, Museo de Arte Moderno de
Buenos Aires, June-September.
ECONOMÍA PICASSO, Museo Picasso, Barcelona. Curator: Pedro G. Romero.
UN OJO, DOS OJOS, TRES OJOS, Casa Vecina, Mexico City. January 25. Curated by
Fundación Uqbar.
2011
DIAMANTE (solo show) at Galería 713, Buenos Aires. June-August. Curator: Lara
Marmor.
54th BIENALE DI VENEZIA.
ENTRE SIEMPRE Y JAMÁS, Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA) Pavilion, Arsenale Isolotto. Curator: Alfons Hug.
LO REAL, LO REAL, LO REAL, Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Curator: Noelle Lieber
PANTEÓN DE LOS HÉROES. HISTORIAS, PRÓCERES Y OTROS EN EL ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO, Curators: Isabel Plante and Sebastián Vidal Mackinson. Fundación Osde,
Buenos Aires, March 31 - May 28.
2010/2011
MENOS TIEMPO QUE LUGAR, en torno al Bicentenario de la Independencia
Americana. Quito, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima, Medellín, Curitiba, Rio de
Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Belo Horizonte, Asunción, Córdoba, Guadalajara.
Curator: Alfons Hug.
2009
PRIMER VIDEOENCUENTRO PROYECTISTA, Oficina Proyectista, Buenos Aires.
Selected by: Eugenia Hernández.
Investigacion / Infraestructura, CCEBA, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires.
Curator: Claudio Iglesias.
LAS COMISURAS DE LA BOCA, Fundación Proa, March-May. Curators: Karina
Granieri, Julia Masvernat
2008
VILLAGE PEOPLE, muestra de tres artistas en Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Curator: Anne Kersten
TRADUCCION (drawings), Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Curator: Claudia del Río.
2007
BIENAL IBEROAMERICANA DE VIDEO Y ARTE DIGITAL INQUIETA IMAGEN, MADC,
Costa Rica, December
PROYECTO “VIDEO CLUB”, Galería Florencia Loewenthal, Santiago de Chile. Selected by: Cristian Segura
6th BIENAL DEL MERCOSUR, Porto Alegre, muestra “Conversas” (Conversaciones).
Curator: Alejandro Cesarco. Curaduría General: Gabriel Pérez Barreiro
RESPLANDORES. POÉTICAS ANALÓGICAS Y DIGITALES, Centro Cultural Recoleta,
Buenos Aires, Curatores: Graciela Taquini y Rodrigo Alonso
THE ARGENTINEAN PROJECT: MONICA VAN ASPEREN, LUX LINDNER, LETICIA
OBEID, Galerie Lilian Rodríguez, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, video en la Feria de Arte de Sao Paulo Art Fair 2007.
Pabellón de la Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curator: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
2006
INTERFACES, en ESTUDIO ABIERTO 2006, organizado por el Gobierno de la Ciudad
Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Palacio de Correos. Curatores: Tulio de Sagastizabal,
Andres Duprat, Marcelo de la Fuente
INSTANTS VIDEOS NUMERIQUES ET POETIQUES, AMERIQUE DU SUD (1) Program
(Argentina) - Nature / Urbanité, La Compagnie, Marseilles, Francia
PROGRAMA 05982:01, FAC (Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo), Montevideo,
Uruguay, July. Selected by: Pilar Altilio
ARTEBA: Exposición del proyecto seleccionado para el premio ArteBa-Petrobrás,
May 19 - 24, Pabellón Amarillo del Predio de la Rural, Buenos Aires.
ARTE DE PANTALLA. Ciclo de videoarte argentino, Fondo Nacional de las Artes,
Buenos Aires, April-May. Selected by: Pilar Altilio.
2005
MUESTRA DIALOGADA # 1, con María Inés Drangosch, en PERIFERICA, Feria de arte
en el Centro Cultural Borges, B.A. Curator: Florencia Sabá.
CONCURSO CULTURAL CHANDON, Museo de Bellas Artes de Tucumán.
“ARTE Y NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS”, PREMIO MAMbA - LIMBO, Fundación Telefónica
VIDEOGRAFÍAS, Fundación Telefónica. Curated by Carlos Trilnick.
2004
SOLÁ, KATZ, EL HALLI OBEID, Fundación Centro de Estudos Brasileiros, Buenos
Aires.
15 + 6 + 3 - PERFIL DE ARTISTA, group exhibition at Centro Cultural de España en
Buenos Aires. Curators: Ana Galardo, Tulio de Sagastizábal, Rocío Perez
Armendáriz.
FORMA PURA, group exhibition at Galería MOTP, Mar del Plata.
2003
DIBUJOS (solo exhibition), CEPIA (Centro experimentación, producción e investigación en Artes), Escuela de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
PANORAMA I; NUEVOS ARTISTAS, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Chateau
Carreras, Córdoba
2002
PISO 6 (VIDEO-ESTUDIOS), Facultad de Arquitectura de la U.N.C., Cordoba.
2001
INDIVIDUAL, Juana de Arco, El Salvador 4762, Bs.As
23 CUADRAS, intervention at Galería Cinerama and exhibition at Casa 13, Cordoba.
1999
S/T (MUSICA) (solo exhibition), Casa 13, Córdoba. Curator: José Pizarro.
PUBLICATIONS
- Preparación para el amor. Novel, Ed. Caballo Negro, Córdoba, 2015, 288 pp.
-Frente, perfil y llanura. Novel, Ed. Caballo Negro, Córdoba, 2013, 150 pp.
-Se conoce que sí, short story published as e-book, Blatt & Ríos, 2012.
-Los visitantes, anthology of travel memoirs, Ed. Caballo Negro, Córdoba, 2011,
215 pp.
-Premio Nuevos Narradores. Second edition. Libros del Rojas, 2010.