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Aylin Leipold

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Aylin Leipold is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice spans from drawing and painting to metal and woodwork, print and video and deals with different types of loss of meaning and shifts in value, especially when caused by reproduction, representation, or translation processes. Found images and objects are turned into new objects, and brought into new contexts–using distances, gaps, and spaces, the artworks are dependent on their surroundings.

Aylin Leipold is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice spans from drawing and ...

The title Ver-, History of a Prefix alludes to the German prefix „ver“. The prefix marks the changing, moving, or destroying of an object in time, often with a negative or difficult connotation. The image recalls Christian iconography and is sourced from a screenshot of a reel of a film. The title both reflects on the metamorphosis of the source image into different screens and surfaces, and the expression of shock on the woman’s face about an unknown event–like a prefix the expression of the woman is dependent on further context. 

Enjambement as something that describes urgency, explosion, demand, but also a leaving out, a rushing, a never finishing, a no time to think, reflect, no time to finish, to settle. Enjambment as the urge to move on, to move, in time, an object. The horse legs are taken from Paolo Uccello’s “Saint George and the Dragon” (ca. 1470) at the National Gallery.

Final work

Portrait of a woman in shock looking at paintings of horse legs. Close up image of two works.

Ver-, History of a Prefix and Enjambement

  • Painting of four horse legs on four long slim canvases.
  • Painting of four horse legs on four long slim canvases.
  • Two portraits of a woman in shock in a metal frame
  • Two portraits of a woman in shock in a metal frame.

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Enjambement

The title Ver-, History of a Prefix alludes to the German prefix „ver“. The prefix marks the changing, moving, or destroying of an object in time, often with a negative or difficult connotation. The image recalls Christian iconography and is sourced from a screenshot ...

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