Juliana Cerqueira Leite @ TJ Boulting

Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s exhibition Bloom includes new sculpture, photo-collage and video that explore the steady stream of recent online news that focuses on humanitarian crises. These works examine the gesticulations of individual subjects interviewed by the news as representatives of a certain crisis: a refugee, a soldier, a doctor or aid worker. Gesticulations by politicians and reporters, as they attempt to explain complex issues to news viewers, are also explored in these works. Leite aims to create a permanent register of these bodily means of extending language and the ephemeral articulations that shape and are shaped by the geopolitical landscape.