Dimensions: support: 294 x 208 mm
Copyright: © Helena Almeida | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: The Tate presents Helena Almeida's "Drawing (with pigment)," a work that immediately strikes me with its stark simplicity. The raw sketchiness gives it a raw energy. Editor: It feels…oppressive? That heavy shape, that darkness. Like someone is really struggling under its weight. What's the social context here? Curator: Almeida often used her body in her work, exploring the relationship between the artist, the artwork, and the space it occupies. This piece feels like she's physically grappling with these concepts. Note how the pigment is used almost as an extension of the figure's struggle. Editor: Almost like she's wrestling with her own artistic practice. I feel that conflict intensely. The bareness of the drawing itself amplifies the emotional impact. Curator: Exactly. It's a powerful statement about the labor and emotional investment inherent in artistic creation. A truly unique visual language. Editor: It definitely makes you think. I'm left with a sense of both burden and resilience.
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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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