2.5-Dimensional Leatherwork - Jeu.

2.5-DIMENSIONAL LEATHER WORK

Through leather wet moulding, embossing, debossing and dyeing, the 2.5-Dimensional Leather Works series gives material form to an intermediate dimensionality between painting, sculpture and architecture.

In these works, a single piece of leather is stretched over, pressed against or moulded around objects and wooden structures. The underlying objects are concealed and deprived of their ordinary function and signification, while their contours and pressure traces remain visible on the surface. What appears is neither a direct representation nor a conventional relief, but a tensioned interface where presence and absence, inside and outside, surface and depth are held in suspension.

Leather plays a decisive role in this operation. Its plasticity allows it to receive pressure, retain deformation and register the hidden structure beneath it. Its origin as skin also gives it a conceptual function as a boundary between internal and external worlds. Through this material condition, everyday objects, anatomical forms and geometric structures are transformed into abstract surfaces of perception.

Light, shadow and shifting viewpoints further alter these surfaces, generating patterns, rhythms and morphological landscapes that cannot be reduced to the objects from which they originate. The series therefore redirects attention from the object itself to the perceptual reconstruction of form: how a concealed structure becomes visible, how a surface records force, and how dimensionality emerges between image, object and space.

In this sense, 2.5-Dimensional Leather Works forms a crucial foundation for the later development of Jeu.’s architectonic language. It redefines the surface from a passive support into an active spatial field, leading toward Architectonic Painting, where structure, tension, surface and void become the generative conditions of form.