Ouka Leele
Self-portrait, test for Peluquería, 1980. Mixed media, 50.6 x 40.7 cm
Ouka Leele
Peinado de cocacolas para Carmelo, 1979. Pen and coloured pencil on paper, 21.6 x 15.5 cm
Ouka Leele
Autorretrato con peineta session, 1979. B/W photograph mounted on paper, 25.1 x 18.1 cm
Ouka Leele
El pezón que clama en el desierto, n. d. Ink and lead white on card, 19.1 x 17.2 cm
Ouka Leele
Comic before Ouka Leele, n. d. Ink and coloured pencil on paper, 15.5 x 21.5
Ouka Leele
First photographs, n. d. [¿1976?]. B/W photograph mounted on paper, 34.1 x 23.2 cm
Ouka Leele
Untitled, n. d. / 2021. B/W photograph, 30.4 x 23.9 cm
Ouka Leele
Untitled, n. d. / 2021. B/W photograph, 30.3 x 40.5 cm
Ouka Leele
La familia, n. d. Mixed media on cardboard, 17.5 x 12.5 cm
El Hortelano
Original for Europa Requiem?!, where the name Ouka Leele appears for the first time, 1977. Ink and lead white on card, 29.5 x 41.7 cm
Ouka Leele
Original for the covers of Star, issue 48, June 1979. B/W photograph, hand-painted with watercolours, mounted on cardboard, 34.9 x 49.4 cm
Ouka Leele
La diplomacia session, n. d. [¿1983?] / 2021. B/W photograph, 40.5 x 30.3 cm. Published in La Luna de Madrid, issue 1, November 1983 (cover)
Ouka Leele
Barbarita sketchbook, n. d. Mixed media on paper, 15.2 x 10.5 cm
Ouka Leele
Poesías siniestras sketchbook, 1978-1980. Mixed media on paper, 15.2 x 10.5 cm
Ouka Leele
Sketch Newspaper ‘desnudo vistiendo un periódico’ neck dressing a newspaper, n. d. Mixed media on paper, 21.3 x 12.3 cm
Ouka Leele
Peluquería session, n. d. [¿1979?] / 2021. B/W photograph, 30.4 x 23.9 cm
Ouka Leele
El locutor y la bailarinnna, 1978. Mixed media on paper, 34 x 24.6 cm
Ouka Leele
Sketchbook to edit, n. d. Mixed media on paper, 27 x 21.5 cm [selection]
Ouka Leele
Mock-up Madonna T. V. Un escaparate de Ouka Lele. Star Records, n. d. [¿1980?]. Mixed media, 8.4 x 12 cm
Michael Wray
Ouka Lele sporting a camera bellows dress and electric suckling pig, 1980. B/W photograph, 24.2 x 16.5 cm
Ouka Leele
Peluquería, n. d. [¿1979?]. B/W photograph, hand-painted with watercolours on modified cardboard, 35.8 x 28.4 cm
Ouka Leele
Peluquería, 1978–1980. B/W photograph, hand-painted with watercolours, mounted on cardboard, 39 x 29 cm
Ouka Leele
Consuelo, 1981. B/W photograph, hand-painted with watercolours, in an original frame by the artist, 60 x 50 cm / 75 x 64.5 cm
Ouka Leele
Peluquería, s. a. [¿1979?]. B/W photograph, hand-painted with watercolours, in an original frame, 24 x 18 cm / 37.2 x 31.1 cm
02 June, 2021 - 24 October, 2021
CBA, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Curated: Elsa Fernández-Santos
Bárbara Allende Gil de Biedma, better known by her professional name Ouka Leele, is one of the most unique and recognisable artists from Madrid’s Movida. Ouka began her idyll with art at a very young age and found inspiration in the dream world. Within these dreamlike landscapes, she reveals incredible scenes which she then transfers to reality and materialises in her work via texts, photographs, drawings and paintings. The theatricality of her images, the challenge of awakening one or several fantasies within each composition, is one of the hallmarks of her works.
The exhibition emerges from a partnership with the Archivo Lafuente, an institution that harbours around 1,500 works by the artist— most of them never before seen—from which photographs, drawings, audiovisual materials and publishing projects from the early days of her career in the 1970s and 1980s were chosen.
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