Antennae #01 Morgan O’Hara
LIVE TRANSMISSION TRACKING HUMAN VITALITY THROUGH OBSERVED MOVEMENT AS ART CONTEXT Morgan O’Hara’s art research, culturally contextualized in the practice of drawing as a fundamental human endeavor is continuous with the time-honored practice of drawing from life and builds on the historical continuum of the field. This practice requires presence,…
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#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#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…
Signals#12 Anne Mundo
“homesweethome” During the months/ weeks/ days of Corona, I tried to find a way of dealing with something that made the whole world locked down in such a short time. At home I made different experiments to find out, how that virus can be seen for human eyes and how…
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 #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…
The sign of line – Ronald Noorman
It had been snowing all night long. The track of the snow grouse that had crossed the plains the day before had been erased. Why the bird had come to this place and wandered around here was not clear. Had the animal been born here and returned out of…