This two-part work encompasses five sequential pencil drawings on roll paper (ex-) and a supplement (Surrogate Viewer) placed opposite to the drawings.
ex- consists of a series of pencil drawings that document five sequences of body movements and static positions. Each paper roll shows a series of shapes. On a closer look, each of them appears to be a sequence, a temporal process starting from the top. During the process of drawing, I was sitting on the paper in different positions and traced the outlines of those parts of my body that were touching the ground. I then filled the shapes with a pencil from the subsequent position (that is why the last outlines remain empty). Finally, frottage on the top of the pencil drawing traces the floor texture of the space where the work was made. I believe that all of this is readable from the drawings themselves. Following the lines carefully and pondering the degree of control at different areas you might even figure out that the person behind these gestures is a left-hander.
Surrogate Viewer is a supplement facing ex-. It consists of two face prints on aluminum paper, acrylic painting on wood (obviously a traced copy of a detail in one of the pencil drawings) and a rounded object wrapped in an aluminum paper (a stone? a heart? yes). This two-headed figure thematizes the position of the viewer in corporeal terms and questions the unity of that position.
In form of a fragmentary notation, the whole setting presents a series of spatiotemporal events (Barad might call them intra-actions) involving the body, its unity and fragmentation, movement and stasis.
