I never tell stories, you told me
Paintings and Drawings 2022 - 2023
Do you remember? you asked and I said I have no memory, you said your only power is memory, I said what do you remember?, a hole you told me, a hole or a whole? I asked, a whole you said, a hoe ,a hwole, what?, a hwoe, what hole?, a whole?, W–Hole, W – H – O – L – E, a hole in the whole, what?, a hoe, what?, a hwloe you idiot, a hwloe in the door, a owlee behind the door, a hwloe outside the door, I don’t remember which words were yours and which were mine, our voices merged, a hole, a w-hole, a door, memory, you said memory, what do you remember, holes, wholes, wholes, loew, wloes,hsoles, hsoels, I remember, sehsols, sowless, s olwess slwehs lhsew, I remember I remember wshels wles hles oles woelsdwol es
Acrylic
Work 1 / 2023 / Oil pastel and acrylic on paper / 85 x 99.5 cm
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Work 2 / 2023 / Oil pastel and acrylic on paper / 79 x 99.5 cm
Work 3 / 2023 / Oil pastel and acrylic on paper / 75 x 99.5 cm
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Work 4 / 2023 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 68 x 99.5 cm
Work 5 / 2023 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 86 x 99.5 cm
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Work 6 / 2023 / Acrylic on paper / 67.5 x 99.5 cm
Work 7 / 2023 / Acrylics on paper / 99.5 x 75 cm
Work 8/ 2023 / Acrylic on paper / 72 x 99.5 cm
Work 9 / 2023 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 99.5 x 87 cm
Work 10 / 2023 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 99.5 x 82 cm
Work 11 / 2023 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 99.5 x 85.5 cm
Work 12 / 2023 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 99.5 x 88 cm
Work 13 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 85 x 99.5 cm
Work 14 / 2023 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 77 x 99.5 cm
Work 15 / 2023 / Acrylic on paper / 99 x 70 cm
Work 16 / 2023 / Acrylic on paper / 70 x 99 cm
Work 17 / 2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 69 x 100 cm
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Work 18 / 2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 72 x 98.5 cm
Work 19 / 2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 68 x 100 cm
Work 20 / 2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 56 x 73 cm
Work 21 / 2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 56 x 74 cm
Mixed technique on canvas
Work 22 / 2023 / Oil stick, oil pastel, soft pastel and acrylic on canvas / 40 x 51 cm
Work 23 / 2023 / Oil stick, oil pastel, soft pastel and acrylic on canvas / 40 x 51 cm
Work 24 / 2023 / Oil pastel, soft pastel and acrylic on canvas / 40 x 51 cm
Work 25 / 2023 / Oil pastel on canvas / 40 x 51 cm
Oil pastel on paper
Work 26 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 63.5 x 99.5 cm
Work 27 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 69.5 x 99.5 cm
Work 28 / 2023 / Oil pastel and oil stick on paper / 69 x 99.5 cm
Work 29 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 99.5 x 70 cm
Work 30 / 2023 / Oil pastel and oil stick on paper / 71 x 99.5 cm
Work 31 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 99.5 x 70.5 cm
Work 32 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 99.5 x 61 cm
Work 33 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 67 x 99.5 cm
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Work 34 / 2023 / Oil pastel, soft pastel, oil stick and acrylic on paper / 70 x 100 cm
Work 35 / 2023 / Oil pastel and oil stick on paper / 99.5 x 90 cm
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Work 36 / 2023 / Oil stick and acrylic on paper / 79 x 99.5 cm
Work 37 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 29 x 41.5 cm
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Pencil on paper
Work 38-40 / 2023 / Pencil on paper / 29 x 41.5 cm
Work 41-43 / 2023 / Pencil on paper / 29 x 41.5 cm
Work 44-46 / 2023 / Pencil on paper / 29 x 41.5 cm
More studies on paper
Work 47 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 72 x 99.5 cm
Work 48 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 82 x 99.5 cm
Work 49 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 89 x 99.5 cm
Work 50 / 2023 / Acrylic on paper / 99.5 x 74 cm
Work 51 / 2023 / Oil pastel and acrylic on paper / 77 x 99.5 cm
Work 52 / 2023 / Oil pastel and acrylic on paper / 76 x 99.5 cm
Work 53 / 2023 / Oil pastel and acrylic on paper / 78 x 99.5 cm
Work 54 / 2023 / Oil pastel and acrylic on paper / 96 x 99.5 cm
Work 55 / 2023 / Oil pastel on paper / 70 x 50 cm
As a storyteller who does not know how to tell stories, I explore ways of communicating them beyond narration, historical order and legitimate knowledge. Fragments of declarative and non-declarative memory are continuously disassembled and reassembled in an attempt to grasp what resists interpretation.
Following highly informal procedures, often gestural, improvisatory and rough, I use both my hands to write/ sketch/ draw/ paint on unevenly cut, torn or crumpled surfaces. I paint and draw at a very fast pace and I produce a lot of work¬ most of which are not selected for exposure. I am interested in the emergence and communication of a raw energy that must be situated beyond any conscious strategies and aims I may have. As far as feminism opens up space for a different kind of knowing, I see this process as feminist. Although my research is informed by feminist theory, its influence on my work is structural, rather than a topic of concern. I see femininity as an existential condition rooted in all human beings through which we can access chaotic worlds that escape the order of language.
This is my first ‘storytelling’ attempt based mainly on painting and drawing. The pieces can exist on their own but also as one, since there lies an underground story that interconnects them as one bigger piece; And that, is a story I don’t know.
I Never Tell Stories You Told Me, Painting, Eleni Tomadaki, 2023