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Towards a Sapphic Modernism: The Interior as Unconscious
2022Installation
dimentions variable
cotton thread, pattern paper, gold thread, blue and black fabric, video projection, sound
Text
It centres on the Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray and the villa E1027.
The body enters Eileen Gray’s* villa E1027 wearing a specialised outfit.
A diving suit.
The garment becomes an interpretative machine,
the garment becomes the eye.
The garment is a sex machine, a home.
The garment transmits to the body everything that exists in the space.
It reflects my identity “again and again”.
Το εσωτερικό (interior),
το οικείο (heimlich),
το μύχιο (secret),
το ασυνείδητο (unconscious).
Το ανοίκειο (uncanny),
το ανορθολογικό (irrational),
το ονειρικό (dreamlike).
A discontinuous narrative.
A transposition from austere modernism to the unconscious
of the modern world and the feminine. Sapphic modernism.*
*Rault, J. (2016) “Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In”. London: Routledge.