The figure is built from the fewest lines that could still pass for a body: an ovoid torso, two antennae, splayed limbs, a pair of wing-like forms holding the white ground at arm's length. Sandhu's economy is the whole argument - neither fully present nor dissolved, the figure sits at exactly the point where a few strokes stop being enough and the drawing has to decide whether to add more.
The figure is built from the fewest lines that could still pass for a body: an ovoid torso, two antennae, splayed limbs, a pair of wing-like forms holding the white ground at arm's length. Sandhu's economy is the whole argument - neither fully present nor dissolved, the figure sits at exactly the point where a few strokes stop being enough and the drawing has to decide whether to add more.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery