Ana Leon

Ana Léon was part of one of the most important (albeit informal) groups of artists from the 1980s, alongside Pedro Calapez, Rosa Carvalho, Rui Sanches, Pedro Cabrita Reis, and José Pedro Croft.

After an initial period in which installation and drawing were the favoured means of expression, from the 1990s onwards the artist developed a peculiar relationship with video (transcribed to digital from Super 8 originals), making very short pieces using stop motion techniques. Small moulded figures (between human and humanoid) performed in small theatres where everyday life and the absurd merged.

More recently, she started using male puppets, created for a line of toys for teenagers. Through the development of repetitive gestures, veritable contemporary dance choreographies, these models of athletic masculinity from the 1970s and 80s are confronted with their intrinsic fragility, falling over, turning in on themselves, looking at themselves in virtual mirrors.

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