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Jac Leirner was the daughter of the art collector Fulvia and Adolpho Leirner. She studied 1979-84 at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo, where she taught herself 1987-89. From the 90s she was a fellow at numerous institutions in Europe and the US, including the Walker Art Center in 1991 and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 1998. Jac Leirner provided, inter alia, in 1990 and 1997 at the Venice Biennale, In 1992, the documenta IX and 2000, the 7th Biennial of Havana from.

In her works she uses collected everyday objects and materials such as paper money devalued, plastic bags or stickers that they systematically sorted in installations presented. The objects collected often refer to their own life experience; as it has for the corpus delicti series each ashtray or sick bag stolen while traveling out of airplanes or organized by the flight crew. Together with the boarding passes issued the travel documents so created works that one the one hand by the formal unity of objects abstract aesthetics obtained, but at the same time point in the sense of a travel diary, the biography of the artist. [1]

Notes and references

Kelly Klaas Meyer: "Flying Objects: Jac Leirner at Gallery Sonja Roesch", in: Houston Press, February 5, 2008 (English, accessed 12 January 2009) Links

Exhibitions of Jac Leirner on kunstaspekte.de

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