HONDARTZA FRAGA

(b. 1982 A Coruña, Spain)

Hondartza Fraga's practice combines traditional forms of drawing with a wider range range of media. Her interests lie in the tensions between drawing and digital forms of image making. She is interested in our relationship to remote places, places like deep sea and deep space and the mediated images through which we might experience them. Her work often focuses on the errors, noise and fragmentation of the imagery and how those idiosyncrasies have shaped our understanding.

The three drawings presented in this exhibition are part of a body of work exploring the tensions between drawing and writing, image and word, form and meaning. In each piece, the title words have been drawn/written with ink as the paper spins at 45 rpm in an adapted turntable. The rotating motion distorts the trace of the words gestured, inevitably obscuring the traditional communicative power of language. The work is a sort of reverse take on asemic writing, a technique that fuses text and image. While asemic writing preserves the appearance of writing without the verbal content, in these drawings we have actual verbal content without the physical resemblance.

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