Artists: Francis Alÿs, Maja Bajević, Vlassis Caniaris, Los Carpinteros, Andriu Deplazes, Willie Doherty, Valérie Favre, Christoph Hänsli, Leiko Ikemura, Zilla Leutenegger, Jorge Macchi, João Modé, Shirana Shahbazi, Tobias Spichtig, Didier William, and Artur Zmijewski
Leiko Ikemura (born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan; lives and works in Berlin) is represented by three reclining sculptures: Lying on the Lake (2017), Velvet Girl (2021/23), and Liegende (Reclining Figure) (2025). All three depict a girl lying on her side, rendered either in bronze or in glass. The figure embodies far more than an image of sleep. It conveys states of transition—between childhood and adulthood, repose and tension, enclosure and openness, the imaginary and the real. Through reduction and suggestion, the girl becomes a metaphor for existence—less an individual than a universal being. Ikemura is concerned with the question of “where we come from and how we might arrive in reality.” Depending on the light and time of day, the glass sculpture Velvet Girl, for instance, changes its color, shifting along a spectrum from pale grey to delicate pink, at times appearing soft as cotton and at others hard as stone.
Source: Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Press Release
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