Caraballo, Leonor

She studies and earns a BFA in Photography (1992-1995) from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Her early exhibitions include the graduation work "Women in Public Bathrooms" (1995) and "Argentine Photography: The New Generation" at the Museum of Fine Arts (1996). Her next project "Portraits on a Sofa" was exhibited at the Ruth Benzacar Gallery (1999). She addressed themes such as the Syrian-Lebanese community in Buenos Aires, Tango Dancers exhibited at Villa Elisabeth in Berlin in the "No Tango" project (2005). She settles in New York. She marries anthropologist and writer Abou Farman Farmaian with whom she continues to work under the name Caraballo-Farman, an artistic collective supported by various foundations and art centers such as the New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The New York Community Trust, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, and Art Omi. Her experimental works and videos have been exhibited worldwide and were displayed, among others, at: Laxart, Los Angeles, Regarding the Horrors, Billboard Project (2000); PS1 MOMA Greater New York (2005); Centro Cultural Recoleta, Berlin Buenos Aires, Art Xchange (2007); Tate Modern London, Illuminations (2007/2008); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Venerations (2011); Center Of Science, Technology, Medicine And Society, UC Berkeley’s, What’s the tumor says (2013); Museum of Art Design New York Out Of Hand, materializing post digit (2013/2014). Buenos Aires International Art Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts (2002); Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2007); Havana Biennial, Cuba (2009); Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia (2013). In 2008, a breast cancer diagnosis led her to art to expose and make sense of her illness. Her proposal, for which she received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, focused on the representation of health and breast cancer. The result was the Object Breast Cancer project, exhibited at the Museum of Art & Design (MAD) in New York (2013). The exhibition is the product of her work with a 3D printer and with magnetic resonance images used to create sculptures and objects in the shape of tumors, a work that brought art closer to science. Furthermore, her film Icaros: A Vision is her first feature film and deals with the fear of illness and death and how to liberate oneself from it through the hallucinogenic plant ayahuasca. She travels several times to the Peruvian Amazon jungle, navigating the Ucayali River. She becomes acquainted with shamanism and the medicinal plant used by the Shipibo-Conibo community.