Mona Hatoum made Composition with Circles using her own hair on handmade paper. At first the marks can simply look drawn. Knowing the material changes everything. The line once belonged to a body. Something normally cut away, swept up and discarded becomes evidence of physical presence. It is a remarkably small gesture, yet it makes the boundary between drawing and body difficult to locate.
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El Anatsui builds enormous hanging forms from thousands of discarded metal bottle tops and fragments. From a distance Behind the Red Moon can resemble woven fabric, although nothing about its material should behave like cloth. That transformation stays with me. Something industrial, repetitive and discarded becomes flexible, fragile-looking and almost weightless. Material carries its previous life into the new one.
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