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Leyre Román Puente (b. 1999) is a visual artist living and working in Bilbao.

What would it be like to live in a time when the only means to see a close-up of Garbo’s face for a second time was to return to the cinema? How much do we lose of that initial bewilderment through repetition? Leyre Román Puente’s practice emerges from fulguration, from those moments of sudden flash. By addressing issues such as what takes place in front of and behind the camera, the set, and the dismantling of the traditional modes of representation associated with cinema’s golden age, she engages with notions linked to sacralization and mythification.

Studies / Residencies

• 2026 Residencias Artísticas Silos. Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain
• 2025 YVML – High Desert. Residency in partnership between artist Erlea Maneros Zabala, Yucca Valley Material Lab, and eremuak. Yucca Valley, California, U.S.A
• 2025 JAI – Institute for Artistic Practices, VI edition. Artium (Vitoria), Tabakalera (San Sebastian), Museo Oteiza (Alzuza), Spain
• 2024 MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies. NABA, Milan, Italy
• 2023 XXVII CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory “è ora di alzarsi.” Alongside invited artist Hilary Lloyd. Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Lake Como, Italy
• 2021 BA Creación y Diseño. UPV/EHU, Bilbao
• 2020 Erasmus Scholarship. RUFA, Rome, Italy