Delirio II [Delirium II], 2010
Video: Monocanal. Sonido. Color
0’55
3 + 2 AP [2da AP]
Exhibición: La Caridad Nos Une
$7,000
Delirio II. Andamos ciegos y sordos por la vida: ciegos porque tenemos nuestras propias imágenes proyectándose todo el tiempo hacia afuera, y sordos, porque nuestra mente no para de hablar.
Proyectamos nuestras realidades internas, nuestros prejuicios, nuestros miedos y nuestros deseos más profundos; proyectamos incluso una felicidad falsa. La mente tiene el poder de transformar las cosas a nuestra conveniencia. Y así vivimos: delirando.
Curriculum
Glenda León (Havana, 1976) is a visual artist living and working in Havana and Madrid. Her work expands from drawing to video art, installation, object, sound, photography and performance. She received a BA in Art History from the University of Havana (1999; Cuba) and an MFA from the Kunsthoschule für Medien, Cologne (2007; Germany). She has received several awards such as the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby’s Biennial Prize (2021), DKV Prize (2020), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2020, 2005), and the LARA Prize (2017).
She has presented solo exhibitions at the Museo Amparo, Puebla (2023; Mexico), Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Pontevedra (2021; Spain); Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz (2020-2021; Spain); Metropolitan Museum Manila (2018; The Philippines); Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria (2016; España); Matadero Madrid (2015; Spain).
She has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in venues such as the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2022; Italy) The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019; USA); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2017; USA); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (2015; Spain); Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (2014; Italy) and the Musée des Beaux‐Arts du Montréal (2009; Canada). She has been invited also to the Aichi Triennale, Tokoname (2022; Japón); the 15 Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca (2021; Ecuador); Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong (2021; China); Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Gyeongsangnam-do (2020; South Korea); Dakar Biennale, Dakar (2018; Senegal); SITE Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico (2014; USA); 55th Venice Biennial, Veneto (2013; Italy) and the Havana Biennial, Havana (2019, 2015, 2009, 2003; Cuba).
Her work can be found in public collections worldwide including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami; Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and has been reviewed in magazines, catalogues and newspapers such as Bomb Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Art Nexus and Artecubano.
Glenda León has written also several essays on art, such as the book La Condición Performática (Pinos Nuevos, Havana, 2000), translated into French by Éditions Nota Bene, Montréal (2010).