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Not-yet-verbalised memory, 2025 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin  – 2025 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Not-yet-verbalised memory, 2025
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2025
Photo: Jens Ziehe
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Not-yet-verbalised memory, 2025

As in the artist’s watercolours and layered glass works, Not-yet-verbalised memory, 2025, presents a central circular ‘figure’ surrounded by a uniform monochromatic field. It adopts the portrait orientation and motif familiar from those paintings and introduces a new technique and material: alcohol-based inks. Alcohol inks come in especially vivid hues that are given to spreading and blending unpredictably. The vibrant alcohol inks have been diluted greatly, poured in multiple layers onto the surface, and allowed to spread into the paper. The circle bleeds organically outward into an irregularly shaped stain or blot. The delicate shades of turquoise and green against the subdued background conjure an illusion of a flame or iridescent will-o-the-wisp.

Artwork details

Title

Not-yet-verbalised memory

Year

2025

Materials

Alcohol ink on paper