"History appears twice, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" (2008)

Inspired by the poetically tragic aura that surrounds E 1027, a villa on the Cote d’ Azur built by architect and designer Eileen Gray for her lover Jean Badovici in 1929. Having built the house as a romantic getaway, Gray eventually walked away from her labor of love. For a period of time it then became known as Le Corbusier’s house, while Gray languished in obscurity.

Knock Knock is a series of three gyclee prints produced from collaged photographs that document the complexity of presence still evident in the villa.

The Egoist/Lover is an elegant reworking of Gray's original Satellite mirror that she designed for Badovici's bedroom.

Touché traps two magnetized books, Le Corbusier's The Poetics of Metaphor with Gray's monograph Eileen Gray within a cage. One book hovers over the other repelled by its negative energy field.

Affect combines Gray and Le Corbusier's colour concepts within the non-heroic language of Gray's aesthetic to evoke the emotional terrain that surrounds the house and its contents.

Shell was shot on location at E 1027, a modernist villa on the Côte d' Azur designed by Eileen Gray and finished in 1929. The house is marked by the tragedies that have occurred there, and the footage is edited in a manner that suggests a dynamic relationship associated with certain areas in the villa. In several instances the camera lingers on Le Corbusier's signature, prominently displayed throughout the house. Ultimately Shell traces Gray's original vision and the evidence of abuse the house has endured since its sensuous beginning, suggesting an emotional topography that lies beneath the villa's structure in an attempt to renegotiate the enduring legacy of Gray's modernism.