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#21 Utako Shindo
Untitled (from winter sutra) And finally Judith had won The truth is disclosed like the phases of the moon in the shaded watercolor One drawn line and another attempt to capture that Ma space-time unforgettable / before dawning towards evening / Almost two years ago Lady on a mesa whose name has ‘light’ spoke about…
Signals#20 Marina Ferretti
At the beginning of May, during the days of the lockdown, I grew some vegetable plants in my garden of a few square metres. I placed the pots side by side in different points of the garden, according to the needs of each plant species. Like never before, I had the…
Signals#19 Kayleigh Jayne Harris
“Line From Light seiries” The past year has forced a shift in perspective, perhaps even a signal to redefine what once was and what could be. What was once considered as familiar, became uncertain. Light, line and paper; all three are familiar. Yet, combined and scrutinised under a new…
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#16 Daniele Girardi
My artistic research is based on my travels, the exploration of wilderness. In this sense, the drawing functions as the track of an experience throughout a journey. However, I had to face a moment when it was impossible to travel anywhere physically. Therefore, by drawing, I set off on…
Signals#15 Sandro Crisafi
Untitled#43 Even though this exceptional situation has been affecting the whole world, I got the feeling that it is not affecting my approach towards drawing. My attitude to art has always been characterized by isolation. As Agnes Martin once said “I paint with my back to the world”: I feel exactly the same, and try…
