Leilane Couto was born in Bom Despacho, Brazil in 1984. She lives and works in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. After having completed her Interior’s design degree, she moved to France in 2009 where she received her Bachelor of Art history and archeology in Lille.

Self-taught in her plastic practice, it was during her Master studies in Contemporary art curator in Paris, that she questioned more deeply the fact that, despite the effort of our society to separate categories and human things, everything remains subtly interconnected and in continuous imbalance. She felt the need to return to her artistic practice to try to externalize and synthesize her feelings and sensations, through the physical and sensory experience of producing something with her own hands. It's about taking the risk of having this relationship, no matter where it goes.

The images she creates are intuitive, emotional and poetic, at the intersection between reality and fiction. In her approach, Leilane leaves free space for spontaneity, incorporating elements of daily life, her double culture, her internal landscapes and the relationship of the female body between time and space. She develops an abstract language between organic forms and sinuous lines, forms that are both hybrid and ambiguous. In her fragmented universe, her drawings and paintings seem to float in a silent space. 

During her creative process, she incorporates into the list of traditional materials, fragments of the present moment in the execution of her work, whether tangible or intangible. As in her vision everything is connected, impossible to separate all the elements that directly interfere in the end result.