Gallery curator Astrid de Pauw brings these artists together through her passion for drawings and works on paper. She particularly hopes to convey the intensity of the works, partly because the series is often shown in a limited selection. In contrast, now they can be experienced in their full scope.
The approach, working method, and visualisation reveal the unique signature and the equally important driving force of the artists. A common thread is that the works do not stand alone, but are created in relation to one another and in response to one another, in a grand, interconnected series of drawings. Work that, in its quantity, scale, and meaning, invites one to slow down and look at it in personal silence. Marco Douma presents two large installations of drawings, stemming from series that previously served as source material for audiovisual works. Although movement and sound are now absent, they unmistakably show the passage of time. Hulya Yilmaz works from emotion in this large series of drawings, in which she explores a subject deeply personal to her. Esther Schoonhoven draws the light in dark underlayers, where every scratch and brushstroke forms a new sentence in a grander story.