Dimensions: support: 294 x 208 mm
Copyright: © Helena Almeida | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: This is Helena Almeida's "Drawing (with pigment)", a work held here at the Tate. Editor: It strikes me as both fragile and strangely assertive. Those almost floating limbs, rendered so delicately, yet the pigment stains are so...emphatic. Curator: Almeida often explored the relationship between the body, space, and the artwork itself. The "drawing" blurs those boundaries. I see the support as another material to which Almeida is adding pigment. Editor: Right, the visible paper and the marks of production really show the performative aspect of drawing. It challenges our ideas of the finished product. Curator: I find it really captivating how she uses such simple means to evoke something so profound. Editor: Absolutely, it's a beautiful reminder that art can be about the act of creation, not just the final image.
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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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