Untitled (hunched women and other studies) [recto] c. 1968

Here's an untitled sketch on paper by Christina Ramberg featuring, well, hunched women and clothing. The sketch feels like a field of ideas where Ramberg is trying to work something out visually. Looking at this, I feel like Ramberg is playing with a limited vocabulary of forms, turning them this way and that. Clothing appears here, like corsets, and blouses, and then there are heads that also look like torsos. These are drawn within windows or boxes, a way of framing that almost makes me think of set design. I imagine Ramberg was thinking about how we present ourselves, literally in clothes, or how we are framed by culture or architecture, by what is inside and outside. She’s not saying it outright, but hinting at the awkwardness of being a body, a person, on display. Like other artists, Ramberg lets the conversation about the world keep going, and we are all lucky for that.