Boryana Petkova is a visual artist based in Paris, France.

In Petkova’s words: “This work is about the distance between each of us. I use the drawing to connect different spaces, people and ideas. In this video two people, far away from one another, make one drawing.

Two hands from different people draw two halves of a graphite disc on offset walls. The drawers are in different spaces but draw at the same time and with the same movement and momentum. The gestures are strange, both hesitant and determined. When the hands withdraw, they reveal two halves of a black circle, although far away from one another the form is a single and unique shape.

The video ends with the phrase: ‘seeing suppose the distance, the way of seeing is a kind of touch, to see is a contact from a distance’”

Concept & Creation | Boryana Petkova
Curator of The Long Minute | Bronwyn Lace