Dimensions: support: 294 x 208 mm
Copyright: © Helena Almeida | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Helena Almeida’s "Drawing (with pigment)," a simple work on paper. It's a sketch with a dark, smudged area that seems to be consuming a pencil. What's your interpretation? Curator: Almeida’s work often grapples with the physical act of creation. Here, observe the material tension: pigment actively erases the pencil, challenging the traditional artistic hierarchy. The labor of making is evident, almost violently so. Editor: So, it's less about the image and more about the process? Curator: Precisely. The material interaction highlights the means of production, disrupting established boundaries between drawing and performance. What are your thoughts now? Editor: I see it. The drawing becomes a record of a struggle between materials. Thanks for illuminating the process.
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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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