Gelen Jeleton
Medium-term residency
April - September 2024
Gelen Jeleton. Murcia, 1975
Gelen Jeleton has been practicing art alongside Jesús Arpal Moya in Equipo Jeleton since 1999. Shes undertake drawing projects such as Historia Política de las Flores exploring the symbolism of flowers as a language of resistance. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Castilla La Mancha in Cuenca, pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Barcelona in the Drawing Department focusing on alchemy and Renaissance symbolism. In 2016, she obtained her doctorate from the University of Murcia in the Faculty of Fine Arts with the doctoral thesis: Una Archiva del DIY (Do It Yourself): una fanzinoteca feminista-queer.
