- Nothing like the Street
- Watercolor and alcohol on rice paper (74 modules) and mirror
- 265 x 210 cm y 265 x 30 cm
- Nothing like Home
- Water and dermatographic pencil on paper (14 pictures)
- 247 x 630 cm
- Exhibition: Drawings, Beuchat/Missana
- Del Cerro Gallery, Santiago, Chile
- September 1996
- The Chilean novel of drawing (excerpt)
- Justo Pastor Mellado
... Claudia Missana seeks to find a closed circuit that forces her to stop at the edge of
the abyss. Here appears a new notion of exile. It is exile in the interior of the country.
For example, exile from the field of drawing. Therefore, these works refer to the forced
migrations that occur within the academic apparatuses of reproduction of drawing knowledge.
A question of factual powers operating under the plot of significant speculations.
Now then: each of Claudia Missana's drawings will be made in the regular format of a
sheet of watercolor paper, cut in eight. Each fragment will be juxtaposed, causing a line
effect, at the juncture. That is, looking for a kind of conjugality of the line.
... The truth is that the result is similar to the reiterated silence of a Japanese
garden, where the notion of emptiness is fundamental. But in this case emptiness is
synonymous with suspense of meaning. The parallel lines are distributed according to the
perturbation of the short perpendicular strokes that operate as visual attractors, making
evident the graphic noise appropriate to the affirmation of continuity.