Susan Karavelli

The work of Susan Karavelli is often narrative, and not infrequently autobiographical. At Bildmuseet, she is exhibiting a series of drawings.

In The Dark Threat, she uses personal reflections in words and pictures, brief factual texts and transcriptions of real, fictional and semi-fictional documents to analyse a story that played out one year ago against the back-drop of contemporary tendencies

The step from calligraphy to drawing is not long; both leave traces of the hand's movements and a highly personal, physical presence that is important to Karavelli. This allows her to insert herself into her work, finding her place there more easily than she does in the real world. Rather than self-absorbed, here autobiography is an existential necessity. 

The Dark Threat

Drawings on paper

I leave no trace but the traces do not leave me

Pencil on wall

Latest update: 2023-04-27