Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Scrub A, 2021Graphite and colored Luminance pencil on paper83 × 63 × 16 cm (32 11⁄16 × 24 13⁄16 × 6 5⁄16 inches)
The artist draws the same repeated gesture, overriding its original meaning. Reducing the scale of the gesture to the size of the paper, Cerqueira explores how the repeated action of lifting something (Lift), removing (Stir), knotting (Tie) or unscrewing (Unscrew), give place to strange scribbles or formal records that are reminiscent of the familiar shapes of human vertebrae, bones, or organs.