Circling graphite lines to exhaustion, floating in a cold sea, folding and throwing paper objects into space, responding to melting glaciers: within As Long as It Takes drawing originates from a body in motion. The line is created through sustained, performative actions that may unfold in front of an audience or take place without witnesses. Exhibition brings together four artists: Carali McCall (b. 1981, Canada), Jaanika Peerna (b. 1971, Estonia), Diogo Pimentão (b. 1973, Portugal), and Peter Matthews (b. 1978, UK), for whom drawing becomes a process shaped by duration while recording effort, vulnerability, and attention. The resulting works are not only images or objects, but traces of lived actions marked by movement, resistance and environmental conditions. Time is integral to these practices. The works come into being within a defined duration, yet their length is never fixed in advance. Rather than measuring or monitoring time, the artists continue to draw for as long as it takes for the internal logic of each performance to unfold.
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