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Anonymous Encounters, 20.09.2022, East Contemporary, Milan


LUCIA LEUCI

DOROTA GAWĘDA & EGLĖ KULBOKAITĖ

Anonymous Encounters


21/09 – 05/11/2022



Corso Buenos Aires is a key avenue in Milan: it connects Loreto, and the central train  station, with the elegant district of Porta Venezia and it is a major commercial artery. According to Wikipedia, with its 350 shops and approximately hundred thousand passerbys every day, this corso features the most numerous concentration of clothing stores in Europe and it has one the the highest daily turnover in the world, making it a quintessential example of capitalist modernity, consumerism and metropolitan life. The frenzy buzzing during the day and the holy void at night are just two of the many facets that this place is able to showcase, maintaining a sense of vague familiarity while presenting perpetual shapeshifting versions of sameness. Ungraspable, maybe even supernatural, Corso Buenos Aires is an example of what Marc Augè defines as “Non-Place”: an anthropological space of impermanence which does not reveal much of its own history and identity while being immediate, and where human beings become mere crowd, anonymous and indeterminate. Such is the location, context and starting point for Lucia Leuci and Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė duo-show at eastcontemporary. (...)

Caterina Avataneo



Kratt (7fe7efa15809aa214e46021b09fb), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Kratt (7fe7efa15809aa214e46021b09fb), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Kratt (38883af73d30b4223243fb165fee), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, Kratt (301a2fbbdb3e91c23613502edd3a), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Kratt (38883af73d30b4223243fb165fee), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, Kratt (301a2fbbdb3e91c23613502edd3a), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Anonymous Encounters, 2022, installation view, eastcontemporary, Milan, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Anonymous Encounters, 2022, installation view, eastcontemporary, Milan, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Kratt (1e46795665334a5a91613afc5c37), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Kratt (1e46795665334a5a91613afc5c37), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Anonymous Encounters, 2022, installation view, eastcontemporary, Milan, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Anonymous Encounters, 2022, installation view, eastcontemporary, Milan, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Kratt (592becb89eff00b418eb1b7f5d42), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, Kratt (5cbad80795a7374b8fc9042c9f6d), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Kratt (592becb89eff00b418eb1b7f5d42), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, Kratt (5cbad80795a7374b8fc9042c9f6d), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Gawęda & Kulbokaitė, Kratt (5a636e5507d9b25050005173c380), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Gawęda & Kulbokaitė, Kratt (5a636e5507d9b25050005173c380), 2022, gesso and inkjet print on canvas, BODY AI fragrance, 60 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

BODY AI, 2018, Body Ai Fragrance produced in collaboration with perfumer Caroline Dumur and International Flavors and Fragrances Inc, aluminium bottle, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

BODY AI, 2018, Body Ai Fragrance produced in collaboration with perfumer Caroline Dumur and International Flavors and Fragrances Inc, aluminium bottle, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Anonymous Encounters, 2022, installation view, eastcontemporary, Milan, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli

Anonymous Encounters, 2022, installation view, eastcontemporary, Milan, courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary. Photo: Tiziano Ercoli