Two sweeping arcs enclose a field while a diagonal pair of strokes cuts through a triangulated descent - the whole composition operating as pure graphic conflict, each element undermining the last. Nasreen Mohamedi built an entire practice from this kind of disciplined collision, where the ruled line becomes an instrument of doubt. Osei-Mensah plants the contradiction at the centre of the picture plane and simply leaves it there.
Two sweeping arcs enclose a field while a diagonal pair of strokes cuts through a triangulated descent - the whole composition operating as pure graphic conflict, each element undermining the last. Nasreen Mohamedi built an entire practice from this kind of disciplined collision, where the ruled line becomes an instrument of doubt. Osei-Mensah plants the contradiction at the centre of the picture plane and simply leaves it there.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery