Winnie Truong
A Slow Immersion
February 28–March 31, 2013
ESP is pleased to present the latest drawing series by Winnie Truong, A Slow Immersion. Truong continues to explore the artist’s ongoing relationship with hair beyond beauty and accoutrement and into a direction of a object and environs. Through delicate, labor-intensive drawing, Truong’s anomalous subjects examine the possibility of hair as a veil and as an object of comfort, while also remaining a self-consuming and self-inspiring muse. Whether they are comforted or encumbered, swarmed or swaddled Truong’s subjects are visual narratives of the artist’s tangible relationship with mark making and the increasingly immersive nature of line and labour in her own practice. A Slow Immersion examines monumental drawing as a product and physical feat that engrosses both the drawn subject and the viewer in an immense thicket of line and colour.
Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
