Leonor Antunes: Discrepancies

Discrepancies with G.G. by Leonor Antunes. The minimalist installations of Leonor Antunes (Lisbon/Berlin) reveal traces of a twentieth-century modernist architecture. Antunes's works allude to geometric forms and patterns from lesser-known designers and architects, often women. In her research-based installations, furniture designed by Eileen Moray Gray (1878-1976) as well as buildings by the architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) are interpreted. 

The atmospheric installations are inspired by the specific context in which they are constructed, but what characterizes Antunes’s art is also her interest in how techniques and materials travel long distances and thus become part of global trading. The installations act as tactile encounters between the architectural memory and craft history of certain places. Cork, rope, leather, and nets are recurring materials in Antunes’s spatial interventions.