What does constitute a consummation?

Charlott Weise

Pairing a vacant snake peering past a set of ships’ portholes and a well-dressed woman tickling a cocktail, in recline, pausing as if in mid thought, Charlott Weise’s diptych, What does constitute a consummation? (2024), can be read as a tragicomic conversation. “Let’s play theatre and discuss the grand theme of love”, to quote the artist.

 

A musing, created over the course of one printing session, like a diary entry, What does constitute a consummation? materialises as a double portrait of melancholy and desire; that feeling one gets reflecting on a forever changing love, platonic or otherwise. Indeed, that feeling one gets in anticipation of something soon to be bourgeoning.

 

Emerging from her extensive drawing practice as well as the formal experiments that happen within and beyond the space of her studio, What does constitute a consummation? directly connects to the core of Charlott’s artistic outlook. Across the drypoints mise-en-scène, aspects of theatrical refinement rub up with the exuberant and free thinking, creating a complex image world. An anomalous place, abounding through line.

 

Given the resonances with Charlott’s practice, it is fitting that all proceeds raised from this edition will be used to fund her first artists’ publication, Schade um jeden Kuss. Devoted to Charlott’s drawing practice, this publication will have a limited run of 66 copies.

 

 

 

limited edition 10 + 1 AP
hand printed by the artist in 2024

£1,400

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