I’m Leo Mayer,¨ nicoleño¨ born in ’82, just a year before the family´s sausages business begins. I don’t think I had a fulfilled childhood and adolescence, my interests were not the same as the rest. I was sent to study drawing at the age of seven to ca´lm my nerves and socialize with others of my age. I went to technical secondary school to study master builder, but I ended up being a chemical technician. My grandparents’ warehouse and my parents’ factory were the patios where I played as a child and spent my best vacations. I lived in Rosario for six years and returned with a food engineering degree to work with my family. I inherited from my paternal grandfather and my maternal grandmother, the virtue of reusing materials. I see art in everything that alters my senses.  – LEONARDO MAYER

Graduated in food technology engineering, cultural management and visual arts production. He conducted an art laboratory with Daniel Joglar, Claudio Roncoli and Betariz Vignoli. He made solo exhibitions in the National Museum House of Agreement (2013), Cultural Center of the Library of Congress of the Nation (2015) and in the Municipal Art Gallery of San Nicolás (2017), among other spaces. In 2021 his works were selected for the IV Biennial of Valencia Ciutat Vella Oberta, XVI Hall of Visual Arts of Junín, IV Biennial of Artist’s Book Museum Casa Carnacini San Martín. He was selected by the Curitiba-Brazil International Art Biennial to disseminate his work together with that of twenty other artists.

ARTIST´S STATEMENT

I focus to generate an intimate encounter between the public and the work. I express myself through large-format installations that can be visited or inhabited, and with notebooks-objects that can be manipulated in close contact with the body of work and the body of the public. I materialize my works by reusing and resignifying elements that have a memory of everyday use. I rely on collaborative work in each of my works. I am inspired and motivated by collective social actions and family ties. My works are a mixture in unknown proportions between mathematical, physical and chemical calculations and aesthetic elaboration, which are evidenced in a simple act of engineering.

ABOUT COHABITANDO FRONTERAS

Together apart: Cohabiting borders managed to generate a multidisciplinary teamwork where we were able to put the work of the four members into dialogue, and generate a preliminary research project that we promised to continue working on outside the residence. What stands out in this residence is the excellent level of theoretical research in the program.