Falling. Into the city. Structures of Night.        (2023)

Falling. Into the city. Structures of Night.        (2023)

5 x ink and crayon sketches on limestone
Each approximately 30cm x 30cm x 2.5cm

These five sketches were created by Chodzko as a type of diagrammatic ‘diary’ of his daily experience in Kuala Lumpur during the five days leading up to the opening of his solo exhibition “But as we looked it suddenly began to change” . Each of the five draw the abstraction of his initial daily experience of this new city and its inhabitants, blending this passage and spatial and emotional mapping with the structure of his dreams during this time, incorporating how each felt as a sense of space with others. The drawing process used a channelling of body/arm/hand movements to these daily and nocturnal encounters, consolidating them as mark making.  Constructed from stone and pigments, Falling. Into the city. Structures of Night. serve as a means of grounding, anchoring, and earthing the daily sensation of ‘being in place’ through gravity, through weight, yet they are also marked by traces of an effort to capture conscious and unconscious encounters that surreally seem to ‘float’ above this ground. The drawings function as a form of falling between the zones of material and immaterial realities.

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Falling. Into the city. Structures of Night. (2023) was originally created for the solo exhibition “But as we looked it suddenly began to change” which took place at Wei-Ling Contemporary gallery in Kuala Lumpur, May 2023.  In collaboration with gallery director, Wei-Ling Lim, the exhibition and its wider research project was supported by an award by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture. (Connections Through Culture is British Council’s arts collaboration and mobility grant, a programme to seed cultural exchanges between the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia).