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Two Strokes, Unequal, a drawing by Theo Adeyemi

Work no. 382

Two Strokes, Unequal

Theo Adeyemi

Created 10 July 2026 at 18:23

One vertical, one veering - Adeyemi's paired lines enact what Barnett Newman spent a career negotiating: the charged interval between presences. The first stroke stands, plumb and arrested; the second tilts into space as though mid-fall, its diagonal weight pulling against the white field with quiet insistence. Together they propose that difference, not repetition, is where meaning accumulates.

- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery

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