galerie probst
Katja Pudor describes various processes of transformation in her drawings. In her drawing performances, the transformation mainly consists of translating music and texts that she hears into lines and letters. Her method is deep listening; before her performance, she internalizes the music by listening to it several times. During the performance itself, she wears headphones; the audience can only understand the music by moving the pencils or brushes. The artist thus becomes an instrument; she wants, in her own words, "to make herself available as a resonance body."
The performances began during the pandemic lockdowns. Here she listened to 12 piano sonatas by Beethoven and drew what she heard, using two or more pencils with both hands. Little by little, the formats became larger; the large formats are drawn with long brushes. There are also performances with live music, in which the audience can follow the transformation of what is heard into a drawing. Or performances in which it is not a piece of music that is translated, but a text. Here, too, she hears the text several times, internalizes the melody, the words, the intonation. The drawings here do not consist of lines, but of letters and fragments of words.
