sono qui [un esercito di donnacce nude] is a book of drawings realized by Doris Maninger in 2013 during a residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in s’Hertogenbosch (Netherlands).

A kind of continuous narrative, the drawings represent a concatenation of experienced episodes and references to images from memory. In some cases, they are accompanied by personal notes related to a specific creative moment, and apparently dissociated from the images themselves: perhaps a conscious representation of how memory is nothing more than an endless series of reconstructions that the “present” makes of the “past.”

Ironic and macabre at the same time, the drawings reveal the emotional charge as well as the taste of provocation at the base of the entire work of the artist. These “collateral drawings, sketched out with the carelessness of those who doodle while on the phone or at a conference” can be considered as a “a graphic counter-melody” to the ceramic women crafted by Doris and a leitmotif of her artwork, a kind of daily exorcism to regain the state of purity and concentration which are necessary for the artistic practice.

Language: English