Hedda Roman
loom
Note to the viewer
by Anna R. Winder
For the past three years, I have lived with Pevlov. He is permanently seated on a see- through plastic chair in an orange carpeted room within a large scale image, next to my dining table. Pevlov or P. is something of a shapeshifter. In Hedda and Roman’s current exhibition „loom“ he appears on a small poster hanging on the fridge in the large image “Melankoholiker”. Below you find a letter from Pevlov addressed to the Melankoholiker, a rather desperate looking large and muscular nude female figure, whom we encounter in a room, that vibrates with life, but also seems to encapsulate all this life in a frozen abysmal space.
226 x 160 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
We meet different characters, Melankoholiker or Struwwelpetra, P. or Pevlov, an immense floating eye, supposedly belonging to one of the characters, some of which have appeared in previous works. Character- and narrative development is a loose but generative drive to the images and is a way of investigating unknown land or new visual worlds, through the perspective of a specific person. But often, the specific narratives and circumscribed characters fall away; they have become a DNA, that hovers in the background and guides what has now established itself as a world of its own.
50 x 65 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
The images on show are produced in a complex and slow process of adding layer to layer, through different digital tools and algorithms. Digital drawings appear in virtual landscapes, working as light-sources of their own or become textured and haptic, by the means of not fully predictable algorithmic processing. It is a process of constant input-output, reworking, and replacing.
160 x 213 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
