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Installation art with life-sized puppets of children, made with paper-mache, inspired by Bruegel's painting Children's Games — Explore

Children’s Games

Ongoing - Childen's Games is a series of art installations inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting. The final project will be a large interactive installation that looks like a playground where the audience can explore a series of scenes based on true events.

Sculptural installation with the legs of a little girl carved in wax and a worm ouroboros of heads swallowing each other — Explore

El que esté libre de culpa que tire la primera piedra

Title Translation: Whoever is Without Guilt Cast the First Stone
Sculptural installation for the show 'Contemporary Indigenous Identity' at the Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco

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La muerte niña

There is no accurate English translation for 'La Muerte Niña,' but it roughly translates to 'Child Death.'
'La Muerte Niña' is the name for postmortem photographs of recently deceased children. It may be morbid now, but it was a common practice that originated in Europe and arrived in Mexico in the mid-XIX century.

A nine-meter-long black-and-white staged photograph, made by Leticia Gravitania, of a doll of an older man walking in front of a hand-drawn background of a New York street inspired by German Expressionist cinema — Explore

Unidentifiable Source of Pain

'Unidentifiable Source of Pain' is a nine-meter-long photograph inspired by German Expressionist cinema. It explores the effects of urbanization and architecture on the development of culture and social behavior.

A staged photograph of a diorama with a painting of a bleeding forest as background and a married couple with eyeball heads embracing each other while holding their hearts — Explore

The Ommatidians

A series of staged photographs of tiny dioramas shot with 35mm slide film

Black-and-white staged photograph of a doll of an older man sitting in front of a hand-drawn background inspired by German Expressionist cinema by a contemporary female artist from Mexico, Leticia Gravitania — Explore

Gray Man

Our brain believes what we think, and some of the most popular phrases are "I am getting old." and "It is harder to meet people as you get older."
We predispose ourselves instead of changing as a collective.

Art installation by artist Leticia Gravitania about war and armed social conflict with empty bullet cases and IV bags hanging from the ceiling — Explore

The Other, My Friends and Family, & Myself - Proposal II

I was never able to exhibit 'The Other, My Friends and Family, and Myself,' but now that we live with the reality of mass shootings and a divided population, I think this work is more relevant than before and needs to come to life.

Art installation by artist Leticia Gravitania about war and armed social conflict with AK-47 rifles and IV bags hanging from the ceiling — Explore

The Other, My Friends and Family, and Myself - Proposal I

The first idea for 'The Other, My Friends and Family, and Myself,' with AK-47 rifles cast in clay

The art studio in Oakland, California, of Mexican multidisciplinary artist and puppet maker Leticia Gravitania — Explore

Process Gallery

A view into the art studios and process of Leticia Gravitania. Enjoy!