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To An Audience2026
Hand drawing, pencil on tracing paper
25 diptychs, 29,7 × 42 cm each (2 parts)
1:1 pencil tracings of hands, taken from press images of tech CEOs speaking at public events. Each drawing isolates a gesture, removing the body and its context. Presented as diptychs on tracing paper, the works reduce speech to movement. What remains are precise, controlled gestures—detached from the figures that produced them.
Stripped of their speakers, these hands suggest a form of authority that operates from behind the scene: present only through its effects, like a puppeteer hidden behind it’s curtain.
The titles retain the full captions of the source images, anchoring each gesture within systems of mediation and circulation.Drawing 

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