Drawing the Line
A solo exhibition by Adelheid Frackiewicz
2021 Absa L'Atelier Ambassador
Main Gallery: 07.08.25 - 25.09.25
Drawing the Line brings together a body of work that explores the conceptual and aesthetic potential of the line. The line becomes a means to form new connections, mark time, suggest language, and disrupt assumptions. Each artwork investigates how the line—whether drawn, etched, constructed, or a found object—can contribute to shaping our understanding of how we come to find ourselves in the world today.
By using objects like the wisdom tooth, the spade, earth, and the remnants of erasure, the works suggest how objects are already embedded with meaning—and how that meaning can be drawn out, recontextualised, and reimagined. Conceptual concerns explored include ancestry, labour, decay, memory, and belonging. The line, which can cut and divide, becomes a tool of connection: between body and land, past and future, the personal and the collective.
To "draw the line" is also to take a stand—to decide where things begin and end. This exhibition invites viewers to look more closely, and to rethink previously held beliefs.
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