Dimensions: support: 294 x 208 mm
Copyright: © Helena Almeida | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: This piece is simply titled "Drawing (with pigment)" by Helena Almeida, held here at the Tate. What are your first thoughts? Editor: There’s a strange quietude to it. The bare legs, sketched with such delicate lines, almost like a memory fading on paper. Curator: Almeida often explored themes of the body and female identity, but frequently within the restrictive art world. Do you think this piece reflects that? Editor: The repetition of the legs, the disembodied quality… it speaks to a fragmented self, perhaps. The foot pressing on a crumpled piece of paper could symbolize the artist’s footprint being forcefully marked on the art world. Curator: It's interesting you see it that way; I was focused on the more practical aspects, like how this drawing acts as a precursor to her later photographic work, a testing of form and movement. Editor: It's amazing how a simple drawing can evoke such varied interpretations, depending on the lens through which we view it. Curator: Indeed, it's a testament to Almeida's artistry.
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This is one of thirty-eight drawings in Tate’s collection by Almeida, all of which are rendered in ink, pen and pigment on sheets of off-white A4 paper. Each sheet has four holes punched down one side, and a number of the sheets have drawings on both sides. The images consist of simple line drawings, overlaid with passages of dense pigment. Each depicts the artist’s body in whole or in part. Many detail her hands, often in the act of drawing. Other images show the artist’s legs, arms or torso, or show her performing an action: dragging an unidentifiable mass that is attached to her ankle by a rope, or pushing her prone body up from the floor.
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