Achea Rheon, 2004 - 2005 Charcoal on paper, series of five drawings. 22 x 32 inches each. Photo: Hermann Feldhaus.
Achea Rheon, 2004 - 2005
"Since the 1990s I made hundreds of drawings using ink or charcoal on paper, trying to define the relationship between the self and the world. The act of drawing remains often a point of departure for my installation and performance-based projects. At times it also becomes a point of arrival and conclusion. The way I think about the surrounding space is reflected in my interest in the act of drawing, the impossible act of outlining the world. Drawn marks are like speech: they attempt and fail yet in this trial there is a mark or a trace left, which testifies to the intensity of a moment in time when something happened. In my most recent drawings the charcoal marks speak of the presence of body. They are intervals of time, in which I am recalling states of endurance. I position human body outside time or defined space. It is perhaps an attempt to come closer to a drawn mark as suggestive and transcending both the maker and the subject: my body." (Monika Weiss)
