Skinless Ausstellung Berlin

Ausstellung Galerie BQ

Datum: 28.04.2018 - 23.06.2018

Künstler: Leda Bourgogne

Veranstalter & Ort:
Galerie BQ
10178 Berlin
Weydingerstraße 10

The artistic practice of Leda Bourgogne (born 1989, Vienna) oscillates free-flowingly between different artistic media and combines influences from feminist theory, psychoanalysis, experimental film and literature. Embarking from Gilles Deleuze’s theory of the ‚body without organs’, her works build on the premise of non-existent identity. Before the background of a genderless interior perspective, the protagonists of her heterogeneous worlds transform autobiographical material into fiction.

A large-scale installation made out of ‚Chewing Gum Poems‘ which have been trodden into the floor is the glue for Leda Bourgogne’s first solo show at BQ, a poetic terrain defined by sculpture, drawing, video and painting.

1. Chewing Gum Poems
Spit-out chewing gum sticks to the gallery floor and walls, trodden in like on the street’s asphalt, where cleaning has long become pointless. Texts transform individual gums into speech bubbles, implying a secret message to the visitors. With its softness and colour, the synthetic material resembles a chunk of meat that has dried out on the floor over time. Chewing as effort and spitting as an act of demarcation – I like the straightforwardness that can be read into this gesture, a literal contact of the mouth and the gallery floor. I also like that the work is very close to ‚nothingness‘ at the same time.

2. Velvet-Ventilation-Paintings
She etches dark velvet with active chlorine and perforates it with ventilation grids and holes that are then mended again. This painterly subtraction on the velvety skin of the works creates a transcendental formation without any use of actual applied paint. The works call to mind radiographic images and summon an uncanny depth. They feign a function, let the image breathe and permit a gaze behind the image: circulation of air, hygiene, wound, disinfection.

3. Backbone-CD-Sculptures
The CD-rack sculptures are composed of modified ready-mades which have lost their original function over the past two decades due to the invention of MP3 technology. Transformed into totem-like figures with degenerated backbones and elevated bases, the sculptures act as guardians for the exhibited paintings. Their heads and speech organs are figures made of white modelling clay which are placed on their top ends, resembling teeth and tongues. They evoke the sculpture’s imagined ability to speak and to spit. The bended metal structure creates irritating twists and turns in the architecture of the body, alluding to a painful contortion. The backbone is a recurring motive in Leda Bourgogne’s works, because it transmits information and neural impulses to the brain through sensors in the spinal cord and hereby creates a bridge between sensuousness and perception.

Leda Bourgogne recently graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She received the graduate price for her presentation at the degree show at MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt. Her works have been presented recently in solo and group shows, such as at Nassauischer Kunstverein (Wiesbaden), Vleeshal (Middelburg), Gärtnerstrasse (Wien).
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