and a body turns

Exhibition Embodied Lines
Uli Kürner (D/NL) Liesje van den Berk (NL) Nicole Wendel (D) Katrina Brown (UK)

Artistic leader: Nanette Kraaikamp

Drawing Centre Diepenheim , Diepenheim, The Netherlands
21 Sept 2019 – 5 Jan 2020

“The group exhibition Embodied Lines brings together drawings in which the experience of the physical body is central. How can a physical action or physical sensation be converted into an image and communicated? This question drives the various artistic practices of the four participants. They each explore the physical through drawing, and vice versa. For example, a dance, walk or gesture can be the impetus for a performance with graphite, a spatial interplay of lines or somatic drawing.

The works in Embodied Lines reflect a heightened body awareness. Yet what is evident is not only artistic research into the sensibility of one’s own body evident, but the relationship of that body to the environment and the other. It reaches back to the physical essence of our humanity. Embodied Lines is an experimental exhibition with wall drawings, installations and performances made in situ that invite both introspection and interaction.”  Nanette Kraaikamp

and a body turns consists of three wall drawings and a moving projected text. Inhabiting the gallery space for a week, I shifted back and forth between moving, listening, writing and drawing directly on the walls. The installed work was completed during a short performance at the opening 21 September and remained until the new year 2020. and a body turns was a manifestation of the ongoing research project tilt-rhythm-back: dances and drawings developing over 2019-2021 through workshops, residencies and conversations.

Excerpts of moving projected text:
(words are timed and animated: appear and disappear: fade, shift, linger: on the wall)

F L O O R

W A L L

C O R N E R

L I G H T

B R E A T H

B O D Y

F I G U R E

V I E W E R

L I N E

I M A G E

Q U I E T

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a figure stands

notices breath

shifts weight / to one side

a body folds

in folding // the spine softens / slightly crumpling

tending

leaning

tilting

off its axis

slightly disorientating

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and a body turns

is drawn behind