Maria Kontis and Albert Tucker

Working in pastel on paper, Maria Kontis creates finely detailed drawings of fragments of miscellanea such as found photographs, discarded crumbled papers and forms of correspondence. At first glance the drawings appear to be faithful, straight forward reproductions, however, upon closer inspection they have been subjected to slight changes and subtractions. For this exhibition Kontis has made a new suite of work that subtly redraws modernist artist Albert Tucker’s intriguing photographic recordings of the intimacies of daily life. Exaggerating the technical irregularities such as blurred focus, and existing folds in the paper support, her work poignantly registers aspects of the original prints and documents that may otherwise remain unnoticed. Kontis has said that her aim is to create works that ‘don’t stand apart from Albert Tucker’s images as commentary but operate alongside them, extending their inner workings and drawing them out of themselves’. In building this series of drawings, she creates a space where visitors can experience the Heide circle anew.