Drawing Time: Duets
Drawing Time is a research project that explores the expansive range and possibilities of drawing as a historical artistic practice.
Evolving from a close examination of new and historical objects in the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, the research-based project has assembled artworks on mediums such as paper, wood, sound and video that are examined in relation to contemporary drawing practices deeply rooted in centuries of Afro-Asian and Pacific history. Through choreographed juxtapositions, the works reflect the purpose of line, movement, performance and gesture across multiple forms of media.
Growing out of this research project, the exhibition Drawing Time: Duets delves into the concept of the double, the pair, the rejoinder. Acts of repetition accumulate through a curated scenography, in which artistic duets鈥攄uos who dance and sing together, who, through the right dissonance or imperfect resonance, find themselves in a state of harmony鈥攇uide visitors across a century in time.
On view are works by 15 intergenerational artists, who conjure maps of colour and texture across pigment and paper, lines and marks on skin and screen, revealed through both animated and restrained movement, gestures that present a composite picture of what drawing is and could be.
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Drawing Time is a research project that explores the expansive range and possibilities of drawing as a historical artistic practice.
Evolving from a close examination of new and historical objects in the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, the research-based project has assembled artworks on mediums such as paper, wood, sound and video that are examined in relation to contemporary drawing practices deeply rooted in centuries of Afro-Asian and Pacific history. Through choreographed juxtapositions, the works reflect the purpose of line, movement, performance and gesture across multiple forms of media.
Growing out of this research project, the exhibition Drawing Time: Duets delves into the concept of the double, the pair, the rejoinder. Acts of repetition accumulate through a curated scenography, in which artistic duets鈥攄uos who dance and sing together, who, through the right dissonance or imperfect resonance, find themselves in a state of harmony鈥攇uide visitors across a century in time.
On view are works by 15 intergenerational artists, who conjure maps of colour and texture across pigment and paper, lines and marks on skin and screen, revealed through both animated and restrained movement, gestures that present a composite picture of what drawing is and could be.
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