Julie Mehretu

Untitled

2021

Ink on paper, 55.9 x 76.2 cm

“I think of my abstract mark-making as a type of sign lexicon, signifier or language for characters that hold identity and have social agency.

The characters in my maps plotted, journeyed, evolved and built civilisations…

The paintings occurred in an intangible no-place: a blank terrain, an abstracted map space.”