It was lovely to receive this envelope filled with an abstracted letter from RML contributor, Francisco-Fernando Granados. Granados has been creating abstracted drawings, writings and graphics as a creative practice activity alongside his other life tasks. Many of these have been gifted and circulated on social media. I see that this practice will be featured in an upcoming exhibition called Co-Respond-Dance-Version II at Skol soon (November 5th – December 12th, 2020). The exhibition notice describes a familiar context for the work,
Conceptually, this second version of the project responds to the state of emergency created by the pandemic by taking clues from two aesthetic methodologies. The first is the use of mail art for political work by artists resisting dictatorships in Latin America during the 20th century. The second is a French feminine literary practice, in which known aristocratic women (Margot de Valois, La Grande Mademoiselle, Madame de Pompadour, etc.) would have their personal correspondences published. Fascinated by these writings and by their intimate nature made public, Granados inhabits this form critically, posing the question of what it would mean to turn abstraction into an everyday language.”
https://skol.ca/en/programming/co-respond-dance-version-ii/
