Echoes in Form

Leonor Antunes: “strips, trunks, trees and dots”
Taka Ishii Gallery, Roppongi
April 19 – May 31, 2025

In “strips, trunks, trees and dots,” Leonor Antunes returns to Taka Ishii Gallery with a sculptural fugue—one that lingers at the threshold of past and present, presence and trace. Within the white cube, time bends quietly. The linoleum underfoot, a reimagining of Noémi Raymond’s textile patterns, transforms the gallery into a domestic reverie—its surface both artifact and invention. Antunes’s interventions do not shout. They whisper across decades, drawing from the muted genius of designers long overshadowed.

The works are not merely homage but a reanimation. Felice Rix-Ueno’s vivid Kyoto-inflected motifs reappear as forms in suspension, assembled into quiet monuments that reference and resist. Antunes layers line, texture, and memory—her materials breathe: wood, metal, textile—each holding a syntax of care.

What emerges is not the heroic but the intimate, the obscured. The sculptures do not seek completion—they dwell in process, attentive to absence as much as form. In evoking the overlooked labor of women who lived between cultures, between credit and erasure, Antunes composes a living archive. The result is a geometry of gestures—each a quiet insistence that design, like history, is always being remade underfoot.