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Marieke Kruger's work on display in Confessionale reminds us once again that drawing asserts
with mute force. She confirms that drawing conducts as a very silent language (not unlike
prayer, in itself a form of meditative self-reflection) and one that intones the peculiar, often
baffling solitude of what we hide as self-knowledge, which often is darkly faltering, even
wholly unspeakable.

Perhaps a need to confess to such forbidden confidences, to disclose them simply to check
the validity of her being against how she perceives it in others, could be seen as a driving
force behind Marieke …