Rikako Kawauchi

'I try to draw reflexively, so that my consciousness doesn't catch up with my hand,' Rikako Kawauchi (°1990) confides. Nevertheless, drawing is an extreme effort and a precarious balancing act for her. 'I always approach the paper as if I were furtively pushing my body against a tensely stretched membrane,' she says. Therefore, the subject of her drawings is the confrontation with one's own body and the thoughts against which she is 'bumped into'. In Paper Whispers, this confrontation results in sketchy body contours clasping blood-red and bruised heads.