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“THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ERASURE” EXHIBITION 2014, Gallery Gorgi

This is to speak again (…) of this pleasure that comes of drawing letters; that manual activity made of muscles, of nerves, of tips and of ink.

The page reveals the graph, the veining, and in their folds, rests some modulated air of our secret respiration.

The words walk in an insectiform procession making its way along the page.

To a text, responds a ‘pagigram’ (a page chart) that is seen like a constellation of stars.

Imed Jemaiel, in his studio

My drafts, I look at them. The eyes of the letters gaze at me (the “eye of the letter” is a term used in typography). There is a relational vis-à-vis that creates a distance, an emptiness while some event or tragedy transpires. The hand measures the scene thus opened. The writing is too visible not to run to ruin.

Thus, the page begins as place and space where my own gaze seizes and relinquishes; where my hand pulls the lines, multiplies claws and accents that rise into clusters, into flowerings, into laces, and into textures. The excess ink or acrylic applies itself to court common modest writing. Here is the birth of a “paypage” (a landscape).

Imed Jemaiel, Mars 2014.

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