Time based text work
(6 months)
Pencils on paper
154.5 x 104 cm (paper size)
164.2 x 113.7 cm (frame size)
Signed and dated verso
(Paris 25 mars – Bordeaux 24 septembre 2007)
© Vittorio Santoro
Part poetic expression, part semantic experiment, Santoro’s text drawings are imbued with a sense of time passing: the mental and physical effort required in retracing the same sentence everyday for between six months to two years, and a curious feeling that remnants of the neural processes driving the human ritual might remain trapped within the largely indistinguishable layers of graphite or ink.
Rebecca Geldard