Rita Ponce de León

Rita Ponce de Leon (b. 1982, Lima) lives and works in Mexico City. She completed a programme in psycho-corporal techniques with the Argentine organisation Río Abierto. Rita understands her artistic practice as a way of engaging with situations that, through learning and participation, reveal a deeply relational, bond-centred understanding of the world, where even ephemeral encounters hold meaning.

Guided by bodily intuition, her work draws from practices such as butoh dance and Aikido, as well as workshops centred on movement as a source of collective knowledge and embodied wisdom. These experiences are translated into drawings, which she presents as visual essays.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Aichi Triennale (Nagoya, 2022), the 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016), Kunsthalle Basel (2014), proyectoamil (Lima, 2017), 80M2 Livia Benavides (Lima), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico City, 2013), and in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021). Her drawings have been published in “Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing” (2013). She frequently collaborates with Joelle Gruenberg, Yaxkin Melchy, Tania Solomonoff, and Esthel Vogrig.