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Against a scrim of stars, girl and dog— a specific girl, a specific dog—face one another. Both are bipedal: upright, unattired, similarly scaled, eyes serenely shut. A line unfurls across the middle of the composition to link them belly-to-belly. A leash, an umbilical cord, a sacred ligature: as the particularities of the tie are left open-ended, the fact of the connection—its centrality, its undeniability—feels like a cosmic event.
And maybe it is. This ballpoint pen and crayon drawing, Dogs and Humans Figure a Universe (2022), is part of the cosmos of Votives, Emilie Louise Gossiaux’s solo show at CASTLE. Executed using a rubber pad layered beneath the page, with which Gossiaux can feel lines by touch as she moves her pen, the piece depicts the artist with London: a yellow labrador, formerly her guide dog, who is now a senior with reduced mobility.
Featuring drawings and sculptures made in the past five years, including a set of new statuettes, the show sees Gossiaux...More
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Against a scrim of stars, girl and dog— a specific girl, a specific dog—face one another. Both are bipedal: upright, unattired, similarly scaled, eyes serenely shut. A line unfurls across the middle of the composition to link them belly-to-belly. A leash, an umbilical cord, a sacred ligature: as the particularities of the tie are left open-ended, the fact of the connection—its centrality, its undeniability—feels like a cosmic event.
And maybe it is. This ballpoint pen and crayon drawing, Dogs and Humans Figure a Universe (2022), is part of the cosmos of Votives, Emilie Louise Gossiaux’s solo show at CASTLE. Executed using a rubber pad layered beneath the page, with which Gossiaux can feel lines by touch as she moves her pen, the piece depicts the artist with London: a yellow labrador, formerly her guide dog, who is now a senior with reduced mobility.
Featuring drawings and sculptures made in the past five years, including a set of new statuettes, the show sees Gossiaux...More
