Published on occasion of the artist’s first solo exhibition in a German art institution, ‘Toba Khedoori’, 9 Oct 2021 – 20 Feb 2022, Fridericianum, Kassel.

Toba Khedoori’s oeuvre can be located on the border between drawing and painting.

She arranges large sheets of paper worked with wax to form monumental image carriers on which the artist produces drawings using graphite and oil paint, which captivate with their precise execution and fine detail.

English and German text.

Further information, taken from the Fridericianum exhibition page:

“For over twenty-five years Toba Khedoori, born in Sydney in 1964 and now living in Los Angeles, has been developing a body of work that can be described as one of the most outstanding and singular contributions to contemporary art. Her works—made through a lengthy, highly concentrated production process—tread a fine line between painting and drawing, while also possessing a distinctly haptic quality….

…Her motifs range from buildings, windows, cinema seats, and fireplaces to branches, grasses, clouds, horizon lines, and more. Human beings are only ever present in the traces they leave; they are never the prime focus of a composition. In many of Khedoori’s works the motifs are detached from their original context and occupy an expansive, empty pictorial space. Time and place do not appear to apply in these realms. This in turn creates a situation where certain works develop moments of abstraction, which open up yet another dimension in Khedoori’s art.”

The artist is represented by David Zwirner Gallery and recently had a solo exhibition at their New York gallery, 2023: ‘