Beschreibung
8x5 emerges from a sustained tension between control and collapse. Within an apparently rigid format, eight rows by five columns, repetition is constantly disrupted by gestural marks that overflow structure. This friction between grid (striated space from Deleuze) and affective expression (smooth space) creates a surface where subjectivity is not represented but inscribed through materiality.
Each unit can be read as an event: not a fixed meaning, but a site of difference and relation. Through the germinal chaos, colour does not illustrate but instead arises as a remnant of the struggle with the canvas. In this process, knowledge is suspended and replaced by an active form of unknowing, a persistent suspicion of what is already known.
Technique:
Oil on canvas, waxed pigment and acryl on primed cotton canvas.
Year:
2025
Shipping:
The work will be shipped stretched by hand on a stretcher frame. This includes a certificate of authenticity and signature on the back.
