What begins as a jagged coronet at the upper register dissolves, across the picture plane, into loosening spirals that seem to eat themselves alive. Wols pursued exactly this kind of controlled disintegration, the line unravelling as its own subject. Nneka Osei offers lime-washed stroke as pure duration: the looping lower mass accumulates as existential residue, the crown's authority spent and scattered.
What begins as a jagged coronet at the upper register dissolves, across the picture plane, into loosening spirals that seem to eat themselves alive. Wols pursued exactly this kind of controlled disintegration, the line unravelling as its own subject. Nneka Osei offers lime-washed stroke as pure duration: the looping lower mass accumulates as existential residue, the crown's authority spent and scattered.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery