
Bortolami is pleased to announce Knots Knot Knots, a group of new paintings and drawings by Caitlin Keogh. The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery depicts language as a fragmentary and unresolved environment. In these pictures, a malleable ribbon or string is shown as a figure (noun), or it describes a condition, imposing (verb) on another figure. This ribbon or string is a materialization of the black line that is the primary descriptor of the artwork's visual language, looping through an incomplete alphabet, a book with no text, and a reader who cannot speak. The body is the site of processing this line, both literally and metaphorically. In the viewing room, the black line continues in decomposing technical drawings of flowers, framed between glass and mirror.
Works


Ribbons, 2019

Embroidered Surface, 2019

Pearls, 2019

Legs, 2019

Reading Figure, 2019

Legs, 2019

Knots Knot Knots, 2019

Pearls (Nocturne) Miniature, 2019

Knots Knot Knots, 2020

Rose/Mirror 1, 2019

Rose/Mirror 2, 2019

Rose/Mirror 3, 2019

Rose/Mirror 4, 2019

Rose/Mirror 5, 2019

Rose/Mirror 6, 2019

Roses #8, 2019

Roses #4, 2019

Roses #6, 2019

Roses #5, 2019

Roses #14, 2019

Roses #2, 2019

Roses #13, 2019
