CELINE SHERIDAN | A WONDERFUL LOVE AND HORRIBLE, 2022
The 15 drawings enclosed in this zine were carefully edited from “a massive envelope of stuff” that artist Celine Sheridan sent by post. The “stuff” is of bodies – lively and vulnerable – which echo and recede like the scream from a child at the mouth of a cave. Meant for a private audience of one (the artist), here they are redescribed in silkscreen, a medium that stresses the strength and emotion of their lines. Unselfconsciously unconscious they want nothing more than to become more than their vibrating lines can ever be. They are neither WIPs nor preparatory drawings, they are enclosures with openings, presenting an ontological landscape that is both abject and fetishistic, marked by the artist's effort – in the company of the other – to escape what Hans Belmer called "the outline of the self".