Dimensions: support: 294 x 208 mm
Copyright: © Helena Almeida | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is Helena Almeida’s “Drawing (with pigment),” a small, intimate piece. The stark contrast of black ink against the paper, and the almost unsettling image of hands pressed down, make me wonder about its story. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It feels like a moment suspended, doesn't it? Almeida often explored the body's relationship to space. Look at how the black pigment seems to almost seep from the hands, staining the surface. It's like she's asking us: where does the body end and the world begin? Editor: That's a really interesting point. I was focused on the darkness but thinking about the body merging with the surface is a completely different perspective. Curator: It's about feeling, isn't it? Perhaps a feeling of weight, of pressure, even of being trapped. What do you think it means for an artist to present the body in this way? Editor: Food for thought!
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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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