Leica Group (Headlines #7 [negative]; (ii) Trapeze #3; (iii) Abstract (fuzzy diagonals #3)

Karl Haendel's *Leica Group* brings together a unique C-print and two pencil-on-paper drawings to explore the tension between photographic and hand-rendered mark-making. The C-print presents a negative image of newspaper headlines, inverting text into an eerie, ghostly abstraction, while the accompanying drawings oscillate between gestural representation and pure abstraction through trapeze forms and smudged diagonal lines. Together, the works reflect Haendel's ongoing investigation into how images and information are transmitted, reproduced, and ultimately destabilized.