Leto Ybarra

En la boca del lobo is an artistic and research project that explores the relationships between theatricality, masculinity, absence and modulations of visibility. If theatricality is commonly associated with an excess of visuality, an exaggerated flashiness and an ostentation linked to the feminine, this project is interested in those scenes that are offered as outside the theatrical: default scenes, or scenes that are equally as invisible as hegemonic masculinity but require a host of theatrical strategies to sustain themselves. 

Taking as a starting point the documentary tricks used by the populariser and naturalist Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente in his film shoots, En la boca del lobo will not only explore the mechanisms of absence produced by masculinity and its theatricality, but also the social implications of erasing the veracity of an event and the possibilities of accessing and controlling the devices used to produce realism and emptiness. 

BIO

Leto Ybarra lives and works in Madrid. She has published Fantasmita eres pegamento (Little Ghosty, You’re Glue) (Caniche Editorial, 2021) and together with Beatriz Ortega Botas she directs and edits the Juf poetry and art project. She has given readings, collaborated with and exhibited her work at such different institutions as TBA21 (Madrid), Luis Adelantado (Valencia), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), Hangar (Barcelona), CentroCentro (Madrid), Intersticio (London), Haus Wien (Vienna), Córdova (Barcelona) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid). She has been a resident at Gasworks (London) and Tabakalera (San Sebastián).