Mano Leyrado

This work explores the tensions between body, labor, and technology in a present defined by hyperconnectivity and accelerated obsolescence. 

The piece functions as a time-based sculpture. When exhibited, the wax figures are lit, beginning a process of self-consumption over approximately two hours. 

In this work, exhibited in different versions, the focus lies on how nature is reproduced, mediated, and consumed.

The series questions the distance between the organic and its simulacrum, exploring the tension between fascination, consumption, and artificiality in our relation with the nature.

A philosophical reflection on the concept of nature and how we construct it. Centered around a recorded conversation with an artificial agent, the work explores the tensions that arise when attempting to define what is “natural” versus “artificial.” Throughout the dialogue, the questions posed lead the agent to an absurd conclusion.

The video’s loops features transitions generated by artificial agent systems that recreate textures inspired by landscapes and organic forms, reinforcing the idea of a blurred boundary between what is natural and what is human-made.

Technofeudalisms is a series that explores the concept of techno-feudalism through scenes of medieval workers, but traditional tools are replaced by laptops.

Action at Rundgang KHB 2024. The first prototype of the work “Qu’ils mangent de la DATA” was presented. The artist distributed the cake. Each layer represents a role in the feudal organization of digital platforms. Visitors ate the owners and influencers.

The code of the first computer virus was molded in agar-agar as a medium for bacterial growth.

A plaster sculpture with a hand-engraved NFT hash code, exploring parallels between physical engravings and blockchain, as well as between crypt art and crypto art.

En la exhibición se pueden observar tres núcleos de obras: reproducciones de las obras robadas de Antonio Berni, la expropiación del sitio de arteBA y un audio poema de Pablo Kadchadjan.

#1. El 26 de de junio de 2008 fueron robadas 15 obras de Antonio Berni a través un ataque con modalidad “Piratas del asfalto” en su camino al Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Las misma se trataban de collages y pinturas desde 1932 a 1981. Más allá de que los ejecutores fueron detenidos aún no se conoce el paradero de las pinturas. El robo es considerado uno de los más importantes de la historia del arte Argentino.

Las obras robadas son: La metamorfosis del pájaro azul (1930, óleo sobre tela); La muerte acecha en cada esquina (1932, óleo sobre tela); Barrancas (1934, óleo sobre madera); La mayoría silenciosa (1972, polimatérico sobre madera); Aeropuerto (1976, acrílico sobre tela); Promesa de castidad (1976, acrílico sobre tela); La olla azul (1959, óleo sobre hardboard); Los rehenes (1969, óleo sobre tela); La zapalera (1961, óleo sobre tela); La leñerita (1954, óleo sobre tela); La casa roja con techo azul (1954, óleo sobre tela); Cristo en el garage (1981, óleo sobre tela); Juanito y los cosmonautas (1962, díptico polimatérico sobre madera); El carnaval de Juanito Laguna (1960, óleo collage sobre tela), y Ramona de fiesta (1966, construcción polimatérica).

#2. Un año después de la creación del programa nacional Conectar Igualdad, el gobierno de la ciudad desarrolló el plan s@rmiento, ambos consisten en la entrega de computadoras Netbook a estudiantes.

En la pantalla de la Netbook del Plan S@rmiento puede verse el sitio actual de la feria de arte arteBA, sin embargo este no está alojado en su servidor de origen. La Url muestra que el contenido visto se encuentra en el sitio de CPU (www.cpucpucpu.art/choreo).

Luego del cierre del programa Conectar igualdad, en el año 2019 el modelo de educación digital nacional es Aprender Conectados.

#3. El espectador puede escuchar un texto escrito por Pablo Kadchadjan, reconocido escritor en el campo independiente de la literatura contemporánea. Este texto es reproducido por una voz sintética digital.

#4. El texto curatorial está producido a partir de la utilización de extractos de otros textos curatoriales.

A project developed during my residency in ZK/U. Through the research about an Argentinian circuit of artists living in Berlín, this series resolved as a conclusion, mixing artistic and curatorial exercises
Forms: A series of forms shows the process of the artist’s research. More than 20 artists were interviewed to get the information from which were drawn certain conclusions. This device adopts the design from “Anmeldung” forms.
Meta-Back-Office: In general, in the first year living in Berlin, for Argentinian artists, it is hard to get inserted into the circuit of symbolic exchanges, the possibility of getting an exhibition space or have enough time for art production. That ‘s the reason why I developed this “Back office of incoming art”, appropriating the exhibition device of back shop galleries to show some of the work from Argentinian artists who arrived in Berlin during the past year.
Autonomous exhibition: A group of tv’s showing themselves an archive of artworks from Argentinian artists living in Berlin for more than one year. What seems to happen after the first year’s crisis, the artists reconstruct a relation with their artwork. They re-think the reason why they do what they are doing, to finally find autonomy.

Looking for some answers about the topic of artist migration in Berlin city, it was impossible to not find the phenomenon of gentrification.
The portraits printed in a random loop are the faces of Argentinian artists living in Berlin. This Installation tries to translate in a poetical way the process where the identities are altered by their overlapping.

The face of the artist printed on a hard-disk works as an introduction of his approach, Mano Leyrado constructs himself through a data archive methodology.

In collab w/ Boris.mhl
Entering the room, viewers can connect to the internet and surf freely, before this they are informed that their navigation will be registered and saved, to finally be uploaded to a website.
“I love you but internet” is an installation that seeks to challenge the logic between exhibition space and artwork while people are also being questioned about reading behaviors on the web.