Untitled Drawings, 1990 (left) and 1994 (right) Ink and gouache on paper. 8.5 x 8.5 inches (left) and 11 x 11.5 (right). Photo: Zbyszek Reszka. Courtesy Galerie BMB, Amsterdam.
Untitled Drawings, 1990-1995
Drawing (Artist Statement)
Since the 1990s I have made hundreds of drawings using ink or charcoal on paper, trying to define the relationship between the self and the world. The act of drawing remains often a
point of departure for my installation and performance-based projects. At times it also becomes a point of arrival and conclusion. The way I think about the surrounding space is reflected
in my interest in the act of drawing, the impossible act of outlining the world. Drawn marks are like speech: they attempt and fail yet in this trial there is a mark or a trace left,
which testifies to the intensity of a moment in time when something happened. In my most recent drawings the charcoal marks speak of the presence of body. They are intervals of time,
in which I am recalling states of endurance. I position human body outside time or defined space. It is perhaps an attempt to come closer to a drawn mark as suggestive and transcending
both the maker and the subject: my body.
