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Johanna Calle — Contables
Johanna Calle

Contables

Johanna Calle's *Contables* is a large-scale work composed of 30 individual sheets rendered in pencil and ink on paper. The piece reflects Calle's meticulous draftsmanship and her sustained engagement with language, labor, and systems of record-keeping, weaving together dense marks and text-based elements that evoke bureaucratic ledgers or census documents. Through repetition and fragmentation across its multiple parts, the work interrogates the ways in which human lives are counted, catalogued, and rendered legible — or invisible — by institutional structures.

Medium
pencil and ink on paper, in 30 parts

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Latin America

May 23, 2016

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Johanna Calle, Contables

Johanna Calle's *Contables* is a large-scale work composed of 30 individual sheets rendered in pencil and ink on paper. The piece reflects Calle's meticulous draftsmanship and her sustained engagement with language, labor, and systems of record-keeping, weaving together dense marks and text-based elements that evoke bureaucratic ledgers or census documents. Through repetition and fragmentation across its multiple parts, the work interrogates the ways in which human lives are counted, catalogued, and rendered legible — or invisible — by institutional structures.

Medium
pencil and ink on paper, in 30 parts
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Colombian Artist, Pencil And Ink, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Artist, Paper, Political Commentary, 21st Century, Paper Medium, Works on Paper, Political Themes, Latin American Art, Monochromatic, Serial Format, Female Artist, Drawing, Series Format, Text-Based Art