Uptown Girl, 2018

Basel 2018
Uptown Girl

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Work on Paper
Oil on cotton paper (monotype)
Unique
129.5 x 90.0 (cm)
51.0 x 35.4 (inch)
e private home, the interior, a space in which its inhabitants are turned inside out is a recurrent theme in Leutenegger’s drawings and video installations. In the private space one is alone, removed from the eyes of strangers, and only faced with one's own mirror image. The female figure engrossed in self-contemplation is another emblem of Leutenegger's work. As though they were her mirrors, she uses these female images to examine herself shaped and shapeable by clothes and looks. The environments – usually the artist’s immediate surroundings – are also part of the artist’s universe, just as she in turn affects the space around her.