THINKING THROUGH DRAWING: PRACTICE INTO KNOWLEDGE 91
Sumru Tekin
The drawings in this installation sug-
gest in their multiplicity, and repetition, a
continuous re-imagining of the distance
between invention and fact—between
an original and its copy[ies], between an
event and its representation. It is in that
space of uncertainty where the attempts
to represent what cannot be represented
are made visible. The repeated gesture,
mark, and image are activated as cease-
less, inadequate responses to the ques-
tion: “what if it looked like this, or this, or
this—instead of what it appears to be?”
translation/suspended gesture, 2011
Dimensions variable. Pencil, ink, black and white
photograph, photocopy, photo transfer, mono
print with carborundum and engraving on various
papers.
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