This painting has been made with black India ink and sepia ink, both commonly used for ink drawing. Latifa Echakhch has used it numerous times before in her work (‘Tambour’, ‘Fantôme’, ‘Untitled (sepia)’). Applied to very damp canvases, the ink spreads as it is absorbed. Its extremely unpredictable contours seem to escape any attempt at control. The invading shapes evoke both microscopic growths and strange, uncanny rhizomes, which like poetic creepers draw us down into melancholy.
The paintings series have been made with black India ink and sepia ink, both commonly used for ink drawing which Latifa Echakhch has used a number of times in her work (‘Tambour’, ‘Fantôme’, ‘Untitled (sepia)’). Applied to very damp canvases, the ink spreads as it is absorbed. Its extremely unpredictable contours seem to escape any attempt of control. The invading shapes evoke both microscopic growths and strange, uncanny rhizomes, which like poetic creepers draw us down into melancholy.