Dimensions: support: 294 x 208 mm
Copyright: © Helena Almeida | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Helena Almeida's "Drawing (with pigment)." The sketch-like quality of these figures intrigues me, and their placement on the page feels very deliberate. What do you see in the composition? Curator: The starkness is compelling. Note how the line becomes the sole determinant of form. The artist uses it to define space and body. Observe the dynamic tension created by the figure's varying orientations; does it evoke a narrative or a study in form? Editor: It feels very immediate, a capturing of movement. Perhaps a study of the human form in various poses? Curator: Precisely. It's the immediacy of the line itself that dictates the viewer's experience. It is in this simplicity that the work finds its strength. Editor: I see it now, thank you! I hadn't considered the line as the sole expressive element.
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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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