Statement:

October Gallery presents an exhibition which brings together the work of Susanne Kessler, Elisabeth Lalouschek, Theresa Weber, Eleanor Lakelin, Junko Mori, Bev Butkow, Golnaz Fathi, Tian Wei, El Anatsui and Gerald Wilde amongst others. 

Lineages explores the employment of line within these artists’ practice, in which the notion of line is not confined to the drawn mark, but emerges as a connective thread in concept and form. 

Each selected work examines where lines become pathways across histories, environment, languages and materials. ///

Work by Golnaz Fathi explores the potential for overlap and exchange between the quite separate domains of modernist abstraction and classical Persian calligraphy. 

Her canvases operate in the ‘interzone’ between script that is absent of meaning and the broad field of potential significance offered to each spectator by that telling absence.