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Laura Leppert

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Laura Leppert (*1993) works with film, installation and text. Her installations and cinematic spaces are constructed in fragments and are constantly in motion - architectures become characters, people pose as objects, objects circulate in space. Her narratives use a non-linear narrative style, characterised by micro-macro movements and hallucinatory wanderings through real places, their social or political logics and semantic nodes. Motifs and texts originate from research on social phenomena, language and its power of action, emblematic places and cultural tropes, which are poetically and rhythmically deformed. Built and pictorial environments that are entangled with themes such as possession, territory, economic ideal and individual desire are thereby decomposed and transformed.

In February 2020 Laura Leppert completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as a master student of Olaf Nicolai. She attended the CX Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies with Cécile B. Evans and Simon Starling, and in 2019 at the CSAV Artist's Laboratory of the Fondazione Ratti with Nora Schultz and Ei Arakawa in Como, Italy. Until 2020 she was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; her final project Forecast, an experimental short film, was awarded the Graduate Award.

Xanten

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Xanten by Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a house with a front yard in Xanten. Text: "We are not talking about work here, we are talking about... front yards."

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a house entrance with a palm tree and decorative figures. Text: "There is a lot of work here... and very careful work."

© Jul Gordon

Drawing of two lion statues in front of a door with dialogue. Text: "So, I just wanted to say, I won’t set an alarm or anything." – "Why? If something happens...?"

© Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a frog with binoculars sitting on a table in front of a door. Text: "Do you remember Simex?"

© Jul Gordon

Artistic drawing with flying birds and a ribbon. Text: "She has become a cat." – "Could we maybe redirect this?"

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a creative front yard decoration with stacked shapes. Text: "She is really awesome."

© Jul Gordon

Minimalist drawing of a house with a lion figure in front of the door. Text: "And prevent more of this mess."

© Jul Gordon

Critical illustration of an advertising poster with the text "You belong" and a crowd. Text: "E.g. fascism."

© Jul Gordon

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Jul Gordon

Jul Gordon lives in Hamburg and works as a comic artist. In addition to drawing, she curates exhibitions and works as a lecturer at the HAW Hamburg.

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