Short Circuit, Solo Show
uniōn (espacio para artistas) June 2025
Exhibition text:
In a landscape of stimulus saturation, Short Circuit positions drawing as a metabolic method - both process of notation and way to expel nervous system excess. Gestures collide and compound in sequences that act as an index - of bodily sensations, graphic languages, industrial and digital imprints and the white noise between. What results are works that are both by-product and maps for inhabiting different rhythms.
In alignment with Deleuze’s Logic of Sensation, where mark-making transmits affect directly from registers of the body, and haunted by the ghost of Futurist speed, Short Circuit asks how pace, pressure, and excess settle into the body. In the lineage of abstraction as a method to interpret environments inner and outer, Short Circuit builds a visual language that responds to a culture shaped by fictions of linear progress and acceleration. Here passages surge and dissipate, mirroring oscillations between desire and apathy.
Across surfaces of paper and glass, drawings move from layered repetitions to soft dissolves. Drawing becomes a method to attune with different rhythms, where both gesture and materiality become a form of index. Tension builds between deliberate lines and marks that appear as a trace of an impact from different custom made tools. Different qualities of tone, texture and line coalesce in sequences that mirror the layering of different modes of perception. Drawing is the chosen medium for its simplicity, immediacy and singularity.
What emerges are surges of patterns that echo burnout marks or bruising on skin - akin to a kind of camouflage, absorbing and expelling environmental influence. The visual language sits between diagram and dreamscape, charting the fluid overlap of physical sensation and environmental rhythms - energetic, at times overloaded, yet often coalescing into moments of harmony.
As Tracey Rose once said in response to the question “What is art for?” - “We need to go back to the cave to answer that.” Short Circuit returns to elemental mark-making as poetic strategy: to locate rhythm within complexity, and coherence within fragmentation. Drawing as record and release in equal measure.
uniōn (espacio para artistas) June 2025
Exhibition text:
In a landscape of stimulus saturation, Short Circuit positions drawing as a metabolic method - both process of notation and way to expel nervous system excess. Gestures collide and compound in sequences that act as an index - of bodily sensations, graphic languages, industrial and digital imprints and the white noise between. What results are works that are both by-product and maps for inhabiting different rhythms.
In alignment with Deleuze’s Logic of Sensation, where mark-making transmits affect directly from registers of the body, and haunted by the ghost of Futurist speed, Short Circuit asks how pace, pressure, and excess settle into the body. In the lineage of abstraction as a method to interpret environments inner and outer, Short Circuit builds a visual language that responds to a culture shaped by fictions of linear progress and acceleration. Here passages surge and dissipate, mirroring oscillations between desire and apathy.
Across surfaces of paper and glass, drawings move from layered repetitions to soft dissolves. Drawing becomes a method to attune with different rhythms, where both gesture and materiality become a form of index. Tension builds between deliberate lines and marks that appear as a trace of an impact from different custom made tools. Different qualities of tone, texture and line coalesce in sequences that mirror the layering of different modes of perception. Drawing is the chosen medium for its simplicity, immediacy and singularity.
What emerges are surges of patterns that echo burnout marks or bruising on skin - akin to a kind of camouflage, absorbing and expelling environmental influence. The visual language sits between diagram and dreamscape, charting the fluid overlap of physical sensation and environmental rhythms - energetic, at times overloaded, yet often coalescing into moments of harmony.
As Tracey Rose once said in response to the question “What is art for?” - “We need to go back to the cave to answer that.” Short Circuit returns to elemental mark-making as poetic strategy: to locate rhythm within complexity, and coherence within fragmentation. Drawing as record and release in equal measure.