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A line is the most elemental of marks. Straight or sinuous, it bounds space into form, creating a primordial rupture that is both an opening and a wound. The violence of coming into being, and the beauty of its completion, can be imagined in the drawing of a line. This boundary engenders an awareness of states of alterity, of the frisson where I end and you begin.
With an abiding interest in the edges of encounters, Manisha Parekh creates affective and associate forms through instinctual processes. These range from the immediate gesture to the slow layering of material, each with a different …