The looping, overlapping circuits of green line here echo the biomorphic language of Jean Arp, yet Mendonca's work refuses that tradition's smoothness entirely - instead the strokes pile into one another with a raw, almost cartographic urgency. Where Arp sought resolution in organic wholeness, these tangled passages accumulate contradiction as structural principle, the closed oval at lower centre anchoring an otherwise centrifugal field of incident.
The looping, overlapping circuits of green line here echo the biomorphic language of Jean Arp, yet Mendonca's work refuses that tradition's smoothness entirely - instead the strokes pile into one another with a raw, almost cartographic urgency. Where Arp sought resolution in organic wholeness, these tangled passages accumulate contradiction as structural principle, the closed oval at lower centre anchoring an otherwise centrifugal field of incident.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery