Modern despair is colorless, but has a clear and striking form. It’s sharp, two dimensional. It’s static and personal. It works on one person, alone. It’s a lonely feeling that captures you and doesn’t let go. Therefore it’s only natural to depict it with a pencil, with simple colors, keeping truthful to the feeling, obedient to the desert. Alice Kask does it wonderfully in her set of works from 2004 to 2007 that were presented at the third Pague Biennale.
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A short biography
Press release from a 2005 exhibition