Considero mi cuerpo (I Consider My Body)

In a climate of social and political repression, where bodies of citizens were targets of state violence, the body of the artist became a political arena that reflected the wounds of a society in crisis. The text in spanish reads as follows:

“I consider my body (the body of the artist), as receptor and sender of all social concerns. My screen printing work should therefore be fulfilled in the field of the collective.“

This text describes Carlos Leppe’s belief that the body is a means of communication that represents social and political concerns, not solely those of the individual. Leppe is depicted here in a spontaneous pose covering his eyes with his hand, perhaps in a symbolic gesture to signal ways of seeing and not seeing.