Signals#26 Monika Grzymala
Last year my world has shrunken due to the global pandemic. Living in lockdown and not being able to travel for my work in other parts of the world an abrupt break and change of speed. Projects were postponed and cancelled. I had many quiet days in the studio. Everything…
Signals#23 Rodrigo Garcia Dutra
I’ve been wondering about how to access freedom in confinement. What I could experience is virtual freedom. A constant digitalization of whatever interaction we had with the outside world, or even the outside us. I wanted to break free from this. Recently, Rio de Janeiro beaches were put in restriction…
Signals#22 Akari Fujise
“I heard the quiet dismantling sound“ is a phrase that came to my mind immediately after I returned from London to Tokyo due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During my two-week home quarantine, I was looking at satellite photographs of Antarctica to find out where the sound was output. Not long…
Signals#18 Gary Warner
an exploratory exercise with my first-year drawing students at the National Art School in Sydney… outdoors, at a long narrow bitumen-surfaced circulation space between buildings on campus, students were asked to each select a socially-distanced location – their instruction was to stay on that spot and spend time drawing lines…
Signals#17 Vanessa Enríquez
“Fluctuations” is a series of spatial drawings that emerged from my experimentation with VHS tape as a drawing tool. Through the use of incremental repetition and the effects of gravity I unfold VHS tape in sequences of catenaries that generate drawings in space reminiscent of graphics depicting deformations of space-time.…
Signals #14 Sohei Nishino
study of anchorage I have been working on the works which relate to the act of moving and walking. For me, the restriction of movement under corona virus forced me to think about the true nature of my creation itself. 4 years ago, I have moved my studio which located…
Signals #10 Sixte Kakinda
Monologue I think that monologue and hatching have something in common: movement. And maybe also bursting or some sort of scattering. The monologue allows you to come face to face with yourself or two others yourself to discuss and reflect on a subject such as the current pandemic. The direction…
Signals #09 Nina Roussière
Nina Roussière Interaction between the signs that I trace, what this intention imparts to me, what I impart in written form, and which defines calligraphy. Between the instinct and the codes, the technique; escape from the codes of representation and interpretation by a protocol of constraints, by a process of…
Signals #08 Dy Tagowska
The present state is a kind of blessing to me. I protest against naming what was previously as “normality”. The formulas of the economy of growth and capitalism itself have been depleted. I miss travelling a little bit, remembering that tourism is also part of over-exploitation. The Pyramids or…
