Dancer (2002)
Acrylic on wood
195 x 195 cm
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2002.84.1
Abigail Lazkoz has made black and white drawing the basis of all her work. Her initial influences lie in comics and illustration, but her reflection around this expression goes beyond the merely formal. Lazkoz proposes an interesting parallelism between the line – as a simple and minimum form able to structure complex wefts – and the existential reflection on her milieu. She is interested in paradoxes, the co-existence of contrary concepts, deconstructions and relativism as resources to talk about violence, politics, and how society reflects and channels these conditions. Abigail Lazkoz’s drawings manage to create an impact using a minimum synthesis of pictorial language due to their great expressive content. She touches on the tragic, morbid and loss of such complex themes as war, gender, or in general of how we face life and death. Dancer, the artist’s self-portrait, is a piece that thus acts as a doctrinal judgement on death; not in its meaning of being finite, but rather of rebirth, of the end of one stage and the start of another, of the encounter with infinite possibilities; death as a passage and as a metaphor for impermanence.