Leto Erin Keunen (b. 2000)is a Brussels-based visual artist and designer. Her practice explores gender narratives, domestic rituals, and embodied infrastructures within normative cultural frameworks.

Her work collects fragments, relations and stories from everyday life. She combines and restructures these elements to present them as speculative interpretations that challenge our perspective on power relations and the gestures that perpetuate them.

Everyday habits are turned inside out until they become vulnerable, relational and permeable. Her handmade objects and installations bring together sculptural forms and fluid materials that possess a performative potential. The resulting deconstructions of social conditioning and gender identity translate into spatial interventions suspended in states of liminality.

DON’T MOVE THE FOUNTAIN

Installation
Exhibited at Vienna Design Week & Dutch Design Week 2024

DON’T MOVE THE FOUNTAIN was initiated by a group of designers from the Contextual Design department of Design Academy Eindhoven.

2022 - 2023

“Think of the moment when you throw a coin into the water of the well. By the time it touches the ground, you may have moved on and forgotten your wish. At night, when the coins of the Fountain are being collected, there is something that remains in the water. The prayers and desires for a better life and a better future.

The fountain can unite people and become a symbol of interconnectedness and a shared vision. This kaleidoscopic moment is at the heart of our project. Over the past few months, the groups have developed a crucial element of the fountain, embedding a unique wish and voice that will flow, fall and merge into the water.”

DON’T MOVE THE FOUNTAIN is an installation by second year Contextual Design students. We collaborated on the challenge of creating a group installation consisting of ten teams. Each team came up with a concept and design for a fountain head and backdrop, resulting in water flowing through waterwalls and individual streams. The water becomes the connecting element that holds the pieces together.

Supported by the departments Communication and Contextual Design of Design Academy Eindhoven.

With works by: Natali Aguirre Montaña, Ise Weier, Georges Baida, Phoebe Ho, Jonghoo Jeong, Alicia Borssén, Derrick Crichlow, Thibaud Boto, Pia Gräwe, Lilly Noordhof, Christophe Boulmer, Léane Gorgette, Lucie Briand and Leto Keunen, Dalila Fermezza, Sarath Muralidharan, Chiara Zarotti, Jun Fujisaku, Serim Kwack, Christoph Wimmer-Ruelland, Sugyeong Lee, Yichun Liu, Mijali Posada, Kai Hsiang Wen.

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