This week, I’ve chosen to look at a somewhat local artist– Hedwige Jacobs. Born in Singapore, Jacobs lives and works in Houston Texas. She creates drawings that are simple in appearance but are rich with an investigation into the ways we live and interact with each other as human beings.
What drew me into Jacob’s work was one of her exhibitions that she had at Women and Their Work here in Austin in 2019. In this exhibition, she had an installation called The Corner Room in which there was a part of the gallery sectioned off to create a faux living room. I say faux, because although the room was real and contained real furniture, it was all drawn on and that really made me think of “drawing into space.”
She also did a similar site-specific installation in 2015 called Woven Living Room.
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