The exhibition, open until 3 November 2018, consists of a documentation of Eileen Gray’s villa E-1027. In a research-based work that began in 2008, the artist recorded the restoration and resurrection of this modernist villa located on the Côte d’Azur.
These photographs were taken over a period of five visits to E-1027 (in 2009, 2010, 2015 and 2017), yet each image is taken from a diverse view, allowing for the interchangeable nature of the villa to resonate through the documentation. The record of the successive occupants is confronted with each other, creating a gripping historical dialogue of conceptual storytelling.
The show’s title, Welcome (To The Teknival) appropriates from two graffiti from 1990, created by squatters occupying the abandoned site. It also reveals the atemporal nature of the building, at one point desolately abandoned and at another, fully preserved.
In 1939 French architect Le Corbusier painted a mural in the villa, as a kind of defilement of Gray’s architecture. Paradoxically, the architect played a crucial part in the site’s preservation.
These photographs were taken over a period of five visits to E-1027 (in 2009, 2010, 2015 and 2017), yet each image is taken from a diverse view, allowing for the interchangeable nature of the villa to resonate through the documentation. The record of the successive occupants is confronted with each other, creating a gripping historical dialogue of conceptual storytelling.
The show’s title, Welcome (To The Teknival) appropriates from two graffiti from 1990, created by squatters occupying the abandoned site. It also reveals the atemporal nature of the building, at one point desolately abandoned and at another, fully preserved.
In 1939 French architect Le Corbusier painted a mural in the villa, as a kind of defilement of Gray’s architecture. Paradoxically, the architect played a crucial part in the site’s preservation.
