Trailer and visual campaign done for
FIBER Festival 2020 in collaboration with a
graphic designer Irene Stracuzzi.
Focusing on idea of instability as ecological
phenomena, we wanted to tell a story of an
earth-like planet revealing glimpses of an
aftermath of humanity’s environmental
impact.
The story progresses through a
“Powers of Ten” approach: starting with the
close-ups of the planet’s surface, and
progressing towards the final reveal in
space.

INSTABILITY [2020]

A series of artworks for a Cactus Magazine
issue dedicated to still-lifes.
For this project I was focusing on extreme
examples of object-subject relation, where
the object acquires a more active role, the
power balance shifts and the item starts
dominating the person.
In my research I discovered such a
phenomena as Objectum Sexuality, where
people fall in love with very specific objects,
commit to them, and some even marry them.
There are women that marry bridges and
rollercoaster rides, and men that fall in love
with barbie dolls and steam train engines. In
this project I focused on 5 specific cases that
I’ve found during my research.
The result is my attempts to see those
artifacts through OS people eyes, giving
them life-like features and giving them the
space where they are placed into emotionally
charged, romantic environments. Becoming
quite literally, the objects of desire.

Objects of Desire [2019]

An art piece for ‘The Intersection’ exhibition
at W+K Amsterdam that brings together
female-identifying artists living in The
Netherlands, to celebrate International
Women’s Day. In partnership with
TheTittyMag, the exhibition presents a mix
of print and original pieces donated by over
40 artists, featuring women they are
inspired by or admire.
My contribution was an homage to Log
Lady from Twin Peaks, who to me embodies
the celebration of absurd, wisdom and
eccentricity, being an apologetic outlier, and
the archetype of a Prophet that receives
messages from another world.
All sales proceeds went to Neighbourhood
Feminists.

THE STARS TURN, AND THE TIME PRESENTS ITSELF [2020]

VJ-material created during week-long
residency at MACAO, Milan and premiered at
Saturnalia Festival.
The inspiration came from what the ancient
Roman Saturnalia festival used to be: wild
and indulgent festivity celebrating life and
liberation in the name of a god Saturn. The
visuals are showing wild mythical creatures
such as dryads, satyrs and golems dancing
together on a macabre celebration in a dark,
vast otherworldly landscape.

music used in the compilation:
Tzusing — Situation Again and Again

Saturnalia [2018]

Collaborative audio-visual show with dutch
electronic musician upsammy, performed at
De School Weekender during ADE
(Amsterdam Dance Event) 2019.
After the performance a prerecorded
shortened version was displayed for the
rest of the Weekender as a 2 channel video
installation with sound.
From the press-release:
“Leeza joins forces with Thessa Torsing, best
known as producer and DJ upsammy, for an
audiovisual concert in De School during
ADE 2019. Based on Thessa’s sounds and
concepts of spatiality, Leeza created images
shaped by the mood and associations it
evokes and re-visualising it through her
own personal interpretations. Moving from
Thessa’s ideas on music as places and
memories. In her work Thessa aims to
recreate places or images through sound;
often poetically, by translating her own
remembrances of locations, images, and
perceptions. Sometimes in a more literal way,
by using field recordings. In this performance
Leeza and Thessa makes their memories
accessible to others, free for everyone to
explore, to hear or walk around in. As if it
were a garden of music, something that exists
on the border between reality and fantasy.“

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