For If I Can’t Dance’s Edition VI – Event and Duration (2015–2016), Leonor Antunes has been commissioned to produce a new sculptural-installation, in which she considers the latent performativity of her practice together with the effects of time and space on materials.

Leonor Antunes understands her work as the hybridization of vernacular techniques and the cultural legacy of modernism. This can be seen in Antunes selection of materials and their treatment, which are often drawn from craft and handwork traditions, and her reference to the legacy of modernism and its specific geometrical patterns, as well as forms and structures developed by architects and designers of the early twentieth century. Mathematics, measures, scales and the beauty of certain proportions fuel her practice.

Her works also enter into a dialogue with the spaces that they occupy, be it through the way they echo the architecture surrounding them, or by her use of its proportions as tools to develop each new installation.

Biography

Leonor Antunes (b. 1972, Lisbon, Portugal) creates sculptures that reflect the environment that surrounds them and make reference to the work of lesser-known figures from the history of twentieth-century architecture and design. Her interest in craft and handwork is present in her use of wood, bamboo, leather, brass, rope, and string; these materials often find sculptural form as vertical or horizontal demarcations in space or as woven transparent nets and grids. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2015); Kunsthalle Basel (2013); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2013); Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (2012); Reina Sofia, Madrid (2011); and Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2011). Her work has also been included in a number of international group exhibitions, including the 12th Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2015); the 8th Berlin Biennial (2014); and the 3rd Singapore Biennial (2011). Leonor Antunes is based in Berlin, Germany.