THE ROLL_18-27 May 2018
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Reflecting on drawing as a way of registering moments…
Drawing requires time, requires movement. As we draw a landscape, a city, a cafe or people, these are not static but in permanent movement.
And not only the object of our drawing moves, but so do we. We rotate our head to look, we gaze around us, our hand slides up and down the paper. I feel that today drawing doesn’t tend to register this passing time, but to capture a static moment, a fraction of a second put onto paper, as if everything was posing for a single moment. Drawing could be the continuous movement that surrounds us and of ourselves as animated bodies.
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On a trip to Italy I try to put in practice a new way of catching moments, of capturing time and space.
A roll. A single drawing for a full week. A continuous drawing, that registers me moving between places and people, that registers the people moving between me and places.
A collection of moments that becomes a collection of memories. A continuous narrative where different moments merge into one. Fragments of people, fragments of atmospheres and places become one.
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Different moments during the trip (Veneza, Verona, Malcesine)
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