Elías Leiro

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. 
He wants to make works in which nothing happens, which are like life. Wake up, eat, shop, read, eat, read again, shop again and sleep. He still doesn't succeed.

A bottle of water, the exploded glass of a car, socks, drops condensed in a glass of water, collectible letters, still lifes or the shattered screen of a cell phone are some of the objects that appear in his works. Elías builds a personal and fragile order of his environment. In addition to photographing events and things of his intimate space, he traces a portrait of a period framed by the present time and contemporary concerns.

He wants to make works in which nothing happens, which are like life. Wake up, eat, shop, read, eat, read again, shop again and sleep. He still doesn't succeed.