In my installations, I take up narrative elements in order to consolidate them into a comprehensive mythology of myself. I continually appear in short sequences, but each work reveals new facets of a complex persona. I want to appear in new forms, one dissimilar to the next. The echoing of communication in a communication-obsessed world permeates my work and makes the identification of a person, let alone a position, all the more difficult. Miniature and Quicksilver are drawing-video works—these are videos between the static drawing and the moving image. Video sequences reduced to white contour lines by a computer program, or in other cases animated hand drawings.
“Leutenegger’s fairy tale of a biography is determined not by horrific conjurings and transformations but by unprepossessing deviations and displacements. Perhaps the girl on the moon will visit other planets during her interstellar journeys, always in sight of Earth and always on her way, offering the universe a gift of her own loneliness.”
(Hans Rudolf Reust, Art-Forum, Summer 2002, Translated from German by Sara Ogger)
Miniature, 2000. Courtesy of the artist
