Exhibition
This dust was gentlemen and ladies
9 Oct 2007 – 24 Nov 2007
Event times
Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Christiana Soulou
About
Christiana Soulou?s first solo show at Sadie Coles HQ comprises a recent series of her deceptively delicate drawings. While drawing has recently experienced a renewed importance in the art world as a primary rather than a secondary medium, for Soulou it has always been an exquisite end in itself.The title of the show, inspired by an Emily Dickinson Poem, is evocative of both Soulou?s strong literary grounding as well as her fascination with the enigma of death.
Born of her hazy obsessions, for the most part focusing on the human body, Soulou?s activity is investigative, diagrammatic, at times bordering on the anatomical. Indeed, in her writings Soulou reflects on the studies of curvilinear perspective by the sixteenth-century Clouet brothers and twentieth century mathematician G?del Kurt?s incompleteness theorem. Yet with bones made visible, faces disappearing, and limbs silently absent, her images have an intoxicating effect that regularly leads the viewer to lay personal claim to the visions they perceive. Often described as ghostly but with an assuredness of line firmly grounded in the present, Soulou?s drawings possess a curious permanence. Haunting and insistent, the intensity of Soulou?s drawings is formidable.