Exhibit 12: Karada de Oboeru - Remember It With Your Body

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Karada de Oboeru: Remember it with Your Body 1998, First Floor, Melbourne

Exhibit 12 marks LeAmon’s fascination with the work of French architect Eileen Gray and in particular Gray’s own self-styled training in architecture, craft and design in the early 20th century.

In the essay accompanying the exhibition Justin Clemens writes:

“These objects are precarious, stunted, creepy they are unrelenting half and half, caught in between the gallery and the boardroom, the kitchen and your childhood. The materials are oddly mixed or inexplicably chosen; the designer could be working for Ikea or for Oldenburg; hermeticism mingles uneasily with the everyday, and refined allusion with clumsy gesture. In contradiction to the great modernist dictum ”form follows function”, LeAmon’s work evidently subscribes to a rather different pre-dictum: uninform overtakes dysfunction to make slices of cake in balsa wood”.

List of works

• S.2512 (trolley) 1998, tubular steel, wood, aluminium, leather, balsa wood, 750x450x2200mm
• S.3112 (low-trolley) 1998, tubular steel, wood, aluminium, 320x900x450mm
• S.41212 (low table) 1998, tubular steel, wood, aluminium, leather, 320x900x450mm
• S.41312 (see-saw) 1998, tubular steel, wood, aluminium, leather, wool blankets, balsa wood, 600x2200x500mm
• S.000000 (hand-held frame) 1998 wood, leather, 2200x300x40mm