Gaëlle Leenhardt

Portfolio

Excavation

2012soil, plaster, polystyrene, wood, metal, yellow foam300 kg, 1m50 height, 2m lenght

Footprint of a hole.

Fireline

2013soil, plaster, wood6m long

Footprint of a trench.

Fire lineA fire line defines a stripe of territory were all the trees, shrubs and flammable material are removed, so that the fire does not spread to the whole area in case of a fire. Fire lines must be cleared of undergrowth regularly to remain effective.

Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer

2011-2012edition of 10 + 2 AP, 113 pages, double sided printed sheets, custom made box, inkjet print on paper, 16 3/4 x 11 3/8 x 1 1/8 inches (42.6 x 29 x 3 cm)

Exhibited in Xavier Hufkens gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

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Pages 88-89 : Photo found in Belgrade, Serbia, September 2011Page 1 : Picture found in Vienna, Austria, November 2010

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Pages 92-93: Excavation showed at the Sculpture department exhibition, Under the bridge, T.A.G., Brussels, Belgium, 2011Pages 28-29: Guiseppe Penone quoted in Germano CelantPages 4-5: Photo taken on the island of Bisevo, Croatia, February 2011

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Of marble dust 2012black marble, dust, lightvarious dimensions

Installation, action, sculpture.Time frame:Before Time (action of carving the stone)While Time (dust in the air lighted with a light, becomes a projection)After Time (the dust felt on the floor, end of the projection)Extinction of the stone, negative of the sculpture.

Museum of Contemporary Art

2010-presentvarious dimensionsspace intervention

Process of becoming a part of the permanent collection of the closed Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade.

InterventionSince 2007 the Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade is closed for reconstruction. In April 2012 I realized an intervention inside the space.The museum was especially reopen in the summer 2012 for an exhibition «what happened to the Museum of Contemporary Art», my worked was part of it, but i was not aware of it.

After the exhibition the museum closed again.The intervention is still in the museum, I had the opportunity to go back there several times. It has become a part of the building. One of the curators from the museum was making a joke: You actually entered the permanent collection of the museum..

Full documentation of the project onhttp://www.supervizuelna.com/gaelle-leenhardt-museum-of-contempo-rary-art-intervention/

Bim slavija

2012-presentworkshop, work in progressvarious dimensions

Bim Slavija was one of the most important meat production factories of former Yugoslavia, located in Belgrade.Since November 2012, I use a small ruined room belonging to this factory.This place is not a standard workshop. The space itself is the artwork.Up until now I have dug and picked over the soil, the leftovers that were piling up for so many years within the ruin. I rediscovered and resurfaced the ground, the foundations of the space. My intention was not to repair the site, I wanted to reveal it, do the archeology of it. I am reconstructing from the inside by deconstructing it. I use the elements around me, the remains of the factory. I built a roof and a small house inside the house, to cover the primary needs for the winter period.With no precise form, I keep a photographic trace of the different time spans the space is going through. Without knowing the landing point of this research, I advance.

Full documentation of the project onhttp://bimslavija.tumblr.com/

The extinction angles

2015table: metal, concrete 12m long / 70cm large casts: plaster, wood various dimensions

The extinction angle is the measure between the cleavage direction or habit of a mineral and the extinction.In mineralogy it helps define rocks and their origin.

The casts made around stones, leftovers of different sculptures.

concrete sticksvarious lenghts (from 1 to 3m)

hand printed photos 20 x 25.5 cm

The fact of hand developing is important in the process, it is the light revealing the image. The photos from far away look like the black holes, in fact they are pictures of the foggy mountains.The sticks are by their weight stopping the photos from falling.

To appropriate

2015paper, wood, plaster, soil, metal, bricks, trees, prints, concrete, fabric,... various dimensions

A month long residency.

to appropriate -affect, assign, allocate, impinge, allot, devote, dedicate, consecrate, give, spare, assume, lay hold of, snatch, capture, seize, take over.No defined idea.Just a field of experimentation.Connected to the place, space, location.In between architecture.Part is a gallery. Part is under construction. Part is a field. Part is water.Month-long appropriation started by living there.

“In this case, experience means contact with the being and renewal of the self in this contact - a test, but one that remains undetermined”Jean-François Pirson

Full documentation of the project onhttp://to-appropriate.tumblr.com/

Team Building

April 2016various dimensions

Team Building is a collaboration with the artist Dusan Rajic.The first part of it was presented in Belgrade in Gallery KM8.Every object used in our installations were found during a trip to the Belgrade landfill, nearby the archeological site of Vinca, Serbia.

Full documentation of the project onhttp://teambuildingexhibition.tumblr.com/