LESLIE MOLINA

Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Contemporary | 2022

 
 

Spaghettification 1 | 2022

 

Leslie Molina is a contemporary Illustrator and Muralist born in Venezuela. She is known by her delicate lines and monochromatic use of color-code contrasted and connected by her evocative use of threads.

 Her artwork is born from an biographical conceptualism as she generates psychologically complex portraits with a cosmic view that connects and reflects life even beyond death through her manipulation of space.

 

Spaghettification 1 | Detail | 2022

 
 
 
 

Her scenes are rooted in the imaginary as she depicts humans and birds forming anthropomorphic hybrids - separated by different dimensions and yet still connected by her skill-full lines embroidered in thread. She alludes to an array of links, expressing complex relationships between concepts such as territorial bonds, transcendence, blood relationships, dream, reality, heaven, earth, stillness, movement, inside, and outside.

 Molina lives and works between Mexico, Panamá, and France.

Spaghettification 2 | 2022

 

Spaghettification 2 | Detail | 2022

Spaghettification 2 | Detail | 2022

 

Spaghettification 2 | Detail | 2022

 
 

Spaghettification 3 | Detail | 2022

 
I am not in love with any particular medium of art as much as I am in love with visually representing the images I have in my mind. I use brushes, fountain pens, knives, they’re at the end, just tools, extensions of my hands, and the disciplines are extensions of my imagination.
— LESLIE MOLINA
 
I stand in front of the canvas with a blade, I scratch the surface, cut it, I split it and mold it with my hands, investigating the reaction of the material and my own in a search of fragility and vulnerability. From that three-dimensional base I paint human bodies in deconstructed spaces, connected to each other with a suture of threads. Through this manipulation of the space the illustration becomes a sculpture, an art installation.
— LESLIE MOLINA
 

Spaghettification 3 | 2022

Spaghettification 3 | 2022

 
I try to build a world that is undeniably separated from the one we live in, and I see the viewer will forget that they are looking at a drawing and instead see an alternative reality. The central idea of my art is basically to disorient. Suggest a direction that never was, a message that never can be understood because it was not made for that. It’s made to get lost. The first to be lost in that language has been me, with my nightmares, dreams and my own stories behind.
— LESLIE MOLINA
 

Symptom | Detail | 2021

Symptom | 2021

Symptom | Detail | 2021

 
 
 

Stich It Into An Useful Garment | 2021

Stich It Into An Useful Garment | 2021