Ronda – Part 1 – Flora Leite

Flora Leite (1988) is an artist and researcher who lives and works is São Paulo.

Ongoing: Sobre cor (About color), until March 1st, 2025. . Projeto Ora. São Paulo.

Flora Leite and Maura Grilmaid

National Art Fund Prize (FUNARTE) – Stimuli in Contemporary Visual Arts.

In this work, the nautical structure of a lighthouse was moved to the mountains in the countryside of Minas Gerais. After designed and built a portable, automatic and mobile three-dimensional piece, it was taken successive times to Selado’s Peak – border of Minas Gerais with São Paulo (Brazil). During six months the artists spent nights working/playing with the lighthouse in about 5 different expeditions. The interest in the lighthouse lies in the fact that it is something able to contemplate both universes of optical instruments with its projection apparatus (mirror, lights and lenses) as the symbolic dimension of this device used to guide ships to land safely.

From this small saga came a series of works: photos, videos, texts, drawings and objects. Among them, this photographic essay in black and white made from negative 120mm, which sought simultaneously register and create a memory about the project, while it gained plastic autonomy itself.