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Anna Barriball
Door
- Estimate
- £7,000 - 9,000♠†
£16,250
Lot Details
pencil on paper
208.4 x 87.9 x 6 cm. (82 x 34 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Anna Barriball's works convey an intimacy with the overly familiar. She smothers the surfaces of everyday objects so they become seductively sinister husks of their former selves. Made by placing a large piece of paper over a door, and rubbing it with a pencil, Door is a drawing that assumes the qualities of a sculpture. Its burnished graphite surface captures every subtle detail of the original object, while the paper warps and fluxes through repetitive handling to gain a solidity of its own. Central to Barriball’s practice is the time and effort involved in the making; her process formulates as poetic meditation, finding a delicate fascination in the mundane and overlooked.
Provenance
Exhibited
Literature