Leda Bourgogne
Lovers Lie II
Artist
Leda Bourgogne
(1989, Wien), Austrian
Original Title
Lovers Lie II
Date2018
Mediumbleach, silicone, towel, zipper, varnish, charcoal, oil and pencil on fabric and velvet
Dimensions180 × 135 cm
Classificationspaintings
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionLeda Bourgogne is an Austrian artist whose work is influenced by art informel, arte povera, tachism, feminism, and psychoanalysis. The primary medium of her practice is painting, but she often accentuates the affective dimension of her pieces by incorporating them into complex installations alongside readymades, audio recordings, and written texts. Although she regularly uses oil paint and spray paint, she frequently approaches her works as assemblages. Rather than pure painterly canvases, they are shaped by layers of soft, torn, previously functional fabrics such as cotton, silk, or latex, which reinforce the emphasis on the materiality of surfaces and shapes. Bourgogne’s pieces also resemble human bodies and their corporeality, a likeness which she further bolsters by cutting, painting, and burning the fabrics, as well as by sewing other fabrics and objects into them. In these uniquely sensitive lyrical works, Bourgogne reveals her skin and her soul, approaching her art as a means of uncovering and exploring her own identity.
Lovers Lie II (2018) comprises a combination of patterned textiles, a bleached piece of dark velvet, and oil paint. The abstract yet highly imaginative surface of the piece provides Bourgogne with a space for a visual thematization of social and interpersonal injustices and misunderstandings which she has personally experienced.
Leda Bourgogne (* 1989, Vienna) studied art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. She currently lives and works in Berlin. Bourgogne’s work has featured in numerous group exhibition at institutions including the Goethe-Institute Ludlow 38 in New York (2017), the Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden (2018) and the KAI 10 Arthena Foundation in Düsselorg (2019). In 2019, she was nominated for the Swiss Art Award.
Lovers Lie II (2018) comprises a combination of patterned textiles, a bleached piece of dark velvet, and oil paint. The abstract yet highly imaginative surface of the piece provides Bourgogne with a space for a visual thematization of social and interpersonal injustices and misunderstandings which she has personally experienced.
Leda Bourgogne (* 1989, Vienna) studied art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. She currently lives and works in Berlin. Bourgogne’s work has featured in numerous group exhibition at institutions including the Goethe-Institute Ludlow 38 in New York (2017), the Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden (2018) and the KAI 10 Arthena Foundation in Düsselorg (2019). In 2019, she was nominated for the Swiss Art Award.
