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Vessel Containing Its Own Erasure, a drawing by Leonora Finch

Work no. 312

Vessel Containing Its Own Erasure

Leonora Finch

Created 7 July 2026 at 22:58

Two overlapping circuits of dark crimson enclose a third, interior form - a loop pressed against itself until containment becomes indistinguishable from rupture. Finch's working method leans on the early automatist drawings of Matta, where the hand traces architectures of interior space without the permission of the conscious eye. The layering here is not additive but contradictory: each closed line undermines the one beneath it, producing a figure that is simultaneously womb, wound, and cartographic accident. Redness is not incidental; it implicates the body before the mind can object.

- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery

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