Luisa Leborgne

ARTIST’S PROFILE

Luisa Leborgne (2001), originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, is a visual artist, cultural producer, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Design, Art, and Technology from Universidad ORT (2023). Her academic background is rooted in digital media and new technologies; however, since 2022, she has been attending the workshop of the ceramist Mercedes González and began exploring ceramics, driven by a growing interest in materiality. Since then, she has continued to approach this medium from a contemporary perspective, focusing on its potential for installation work and large-scale pieces.

She has participated in various group exhibitions, workshops, and artist clinics, and has worked professionally at several creative institutions, allowing her to enrich her practice through multiple artistic perspectives and experiences. Her work is marked by a constant search for meaning in matter, time, the body, and emotions, expressed through the different languages and media she employs. She is particularly interested in exploring and combining these mediums, often working with ceramics, found objects, photography, archives, and video. A significant aspect of her work is process-driven, with deep engagement in all its stages. She works meticulously, drawing from autobiographical elements in her compositions. Her themes include fragility and roughness, resilience, grief, memory, the archive, refuge, the conflict between the public and private, and the epistolary archive.

Since 2024, she has worked as a producer at Magma Futura, a cultural space, and also freelances, creating diverse artistic projects for various clients, offering services such as photography, visuals, graphic design, and set design. Since 2023, she has been primarily represented by the emerging gallery Hungry Art, and her works are part of private collections both nationally and internationally (Germany and France).

Read about Luisa’s residency project in her own words… 

My goal for this residency is to further explore the potential of matter and volume. I intend to approach ceramics from a more contemporary perspective, using it as both installation and ephemeral art, while also experimenting with new materials found in the environment and integrating them into my practice