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(b. Sío Paulo, Brazil, 1961) She studied at FAAP University, in Sío Paulo. Catunda was a part of the 80's generation of Brazilian artists who participated in the exhibition "Painting as a Way" in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sío Paulo in 1983. They were a new breath of fresh air within the young artistic circuit of the time and began producing a figuration that was neither mimetic nor gestural. This group rebelled against the idea that painting became the subject in discussion, the end of a process or the receptacle of history. In the early 80's, the expression "Conceptual Painting" seemed too qualitative, yet today, it has become clear that as an aesthetic proposition, it came to reinvigorate an old and battered question of "representation." Leda adopted elements of representation for her work that went beyond painting and canvas. She used rather unusual pieces of fabric, laying them over the canvas as if they were paint, going beyond the idea of beauty. She ap
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