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…
Signals #07 Diana Sprenger and Euan Williams
“Airborne Project” Diana Sprenger and Euan Williams The uncanny feeling when seeing a floating object. A stasis. A stillness that gets caught in the air. Serendipity of movement. Connecting in an optimistic act. A reaching out without touching. Gratitude to the participation. Viewing and thinking is taking part. …
Signals #06 Ram Samocha
“Energy Balls series, Ball No. 7, Apr 2020.” Ram Samocha The Energy Balls drawing series began last winter, as I was exploring different ways to keep being creative, other than working in my own cold studio. I was thinking of creating in my cozy room, near my computer, a new…
Signals #05 Takehito Koganezawa
Lately, I’ve been making frequent walk to the river in my neighborhood. People were having a good time on the riverbank, and it was peaceful. The areas of each individual are subtly overlapping, and although invisible to the eye, the colors are mixed together. Takehito Koganezawa Born in 1974 in…
Signals #04 Xu Jiong
“ShanShui”（山水: landscape）Xu Jiong Life, for many people, can be divided into “before 2020” or “after 2020”. However, it has not changed that much for me after 2020. I stay at home, I read, I write, I drink tea, I grow flowers. I envy a friend who lives in the west…
Signals #03 Tommaso Gorla
“The Modern Dance” Tommaso Gorla This drawing is called “The Modern Dance” and I have just named it so. Firstly, because amongst the books I’m reading throughout self-isolation is William Gibson’s “Virtual Light”, and this is the name of one of the chapters. And secondly because, to me, it does…
Signals #02 Dayana Lucas
“Sings and Bleeds” Dayana Lucas 50x65cm, sumi-e paper 80gsm, dragon’s blood ink and brush photo © Dinis Santos These two drawings were made last year with “dragon’s blood”, the inner liquid of an endemic tree called “Dragoeiro” (Dracaena Draco*) of Macaronésia region (Madeira, Açores, Canarias and Cabo Verde). This inner…
