Artist:
Leonor Antunes (born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal; lives and works in Berlin, Germany).

Material:
Leather and Fiberglass

Description:
“a spine wall suppressed all draughts belongs to a series of works Leonor Antunes conceived following her research on E-1027, a seaside villa in Southern France designed by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici and built between 1926 and 1929. In this series of works, the artist has produced duplicates of each of her sculptures, allowing the same object to be perceived in different ways when placed in different spatial arrangements. The title of the work is an excerpt of the text ‘Eclecticism to Doubt,’, a dialogue between Gray and Badovici about the Villa. The sculpture is composed of two rolls of black leather that replicate a wave-shaped Fiberglass wall from the lower floor of the villa. The use of the malleable material confers to the artist’s replica a flexibility that is only illusory in the original. Leonor Antunes explores the relationships between sculpture, architecture, design and the decorative arts. A keen researcher of some of the most iconic buildings of the twentieth century, the artist appropriates formal elements gathered in the course of her research, giving them new contexts to question our way of looking at modernity and its critical reception.”
—”a spine wall suppressed all draughts,” Serralves Museum website.