With the exhibition E-1027+123, Stéphane Couturier focuses on the iconic work of designer and architect Eileen Gray. Built between 1926 and 1929 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the villa marks Gray's first major architectural project—a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) combining interior design, furniture, and textiles.
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Stéphane Couturier, série E-1027+123, Villa Eileen Gray #8, C-Print, 2021-2022
When Le Corbusier, a friend of Jean Badovici, later painted several walls of the house with large-scale murals—an intervention Gray perceived as an infringement on her work—a creative and emotional tension emerged. Couturier captures precisely this tension in his double exposures: He blends Gray's constructive clarity with Le Corbusier's expressive gestures, depicting architecture as a living space caught between conflict, memory, and change.
With E-1027+123, Couturier continues his long-standing interest in architecture as a mirror of social developments. Past and present interweave into a visual narrative about utopia, memory and the poetic politics of space.
