Nice Buenaventura

Nice Buenaventura in her studio
Visually simple but with underlying precision and complexity, Nice Buenaventura’s oeuvre of handmade photocopies, misprints and other analog communications interrogate social and cultural systems of value and action.

Things are falling apart at home, as they are in many other places. I make no grand attempts to rebuild – it feels futile and also premature. Instead I turn to some kind of atlassing wherein I try to find my way to a simpler and more genuine place. In the process, I eschew concentrated mark-making and try a more spontaneous gesture. This has taught me nothing new except the true back of my drawing hand.

Nice Buenaventura - The atlasser knows everything and nothing
The atlasser knows everything and nothing
31.25 x 23.5 in / 79.3 x 59. cm (approx framed, per frame), diptych
Graphite on paper
2020