Dimensions: support: 294 x 208 mm
Copyright: © Helena Almeida | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is "Drawing (with pigment)" by Helena Almeida. It's part of the Tate collection. It's a simple sketch, almost dreamlike. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It's interesting, isn't it? To me, it's like a fleeting thought, barely captured before it vanishes. The lines are so delicate, as if she's afraid to press too hard, to define it too much. Editor: Yes, there's a fragility. Curator: Exactly! And that signature… it's like a whisper. Almost like she's saying, "Did I really make this? Or did it just… happen?" It feels deeply personal. Editor: That makes me think of it differently now. Curator: Art should spark that in you.
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tate about 1 month ago
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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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