LINE OF PAPER AND CHAIR

Another stream of works emerges from the choreography of a line of paper and a chair 

While exploring lines in asemic writing, I played with the softness of a line of paper with a chair. From there follows a series of works.

 Photo credit Jade Decade

IMPRINTS OF ACTIONS

Following my last post, here is the first room of the open studio exhibition of my residency at DRAWinternational about the physicality of drawing as a recording of physical experiences.

 As I have been suffering during the residency of frozen shoulders, I had to develop new ways of working that took into consideration my physical constrains.

Initially I worked on the floor, with sticks, ink, graphite, charcoal and house paint, capturing the free light movements of dandelion seeds.

The paper I ordered to keep developing those works nerver got delivered and the constant rain in the village meant there were no more dandelions flowers available. I got given some life size sheets of paper I decided to experiment with.  The quality of that new paper was such that it got embossed at any contact. I then developed a series of work on scrunched paper by enveloping myself with the paper and moving with through different actions. I was interested in all the marks, scars of the paper that I searched and highlighted with charcoal marks. This process is recorded in my video work. Some of those drawings took an interesting physical life size presence.

I was also curious about what form a line created through the scrunching of an elastic around my body could take in contact of the fluidity of ink. By pouring ink, on the paper, it imprinted its flow to the accidental point of breakage of the paper. After drying, the paper, hydrophobic, maintain the open broken shape.

Finally I presented in the room a sculptural  line of soft paper and strings, residue of experiments.

 photographs credit Jade Decade

OPEN STUDIOS at DRAWinternational

What form could a stream of thoughts take?

During my residency, I have researched  the form of body, written and drawing language.

After almost two months of being immerse in my practice and its rhythms and movements, I had the opportunity to organise the work for the viewing of an open studio. This occasion was very beneficial to organise spatially some outcomes of my residency in the whole building of DRAWinternational.

The research has been a physical way of thinking-making, navigating and discovering. The work is performative and follows a thread and system of action, response, navigation with intentionally injecting a sense of play.

My aim for the open studio was for the audience to move between the different works, so that they could experience a physical journey through my research, got an immersion in the process expansion, and develop their own response and links. I felt that the physical journey and the movement between the rooms was integral to the exhibition. We cannot either underestimate the impact of exhibiting in the context of the space of creation.

While there was no specific “message” in the work, I could recognise some plastic themes, that become more apparent when I placed intentionally artworks in space in relationship to each other and the building.

Seeing things on a flat screen is very different from the physical experience, yet I will be sharing in the next blog posts the 5 different spaces that display some outcomes of my residency. (you might need to scroll back up to get a the documentation in the order of the physical exhibition).

Photograph Credit @Jade Decade