Elías Leiro
(Argentina, 1995)
Born in 1995 in Buenos Aires. Elías Leiro is a visual artist and art historian. His artistic practice began with photography and later extended to video, painting, installation and writing.
His production is developed from the observation of everyday and simple objects that coexist in a non-hierarchical way with images linked to pop culture, internet and art history. The photographs taken with a cell phone dialogue with screenshots that the artist accumulates without any kind of order in his computer and cell phone. The choice of the different materials that make up the work is intuitive. Randomness is part of his process and the final result is not planned in advance.
He defines his poetics as realistic. He is interested in the composition of images in the present and in the different layers of representation that constitute experience. Elías looks at everyday scenes with humor and wonder. From a casualist tendency he thinks of reality as a series of random events that through fiction and narration acquire meaning.