L’INCONNU Amsterdam

House Artist 13 · Pen drawing

L’INCONNU Amara El Mansouri

One line, repeated, is enough to make the paper move.

Interference, red and black, 1996. Ink on paper.
LX-AEM-001 · Interference, red and black · 1996

Amara El Mansouri draws with a technical pen and a straight edge that she lets drift. Line after line, each one bending a little where the one before it bent, until the sheet seems to ripple like water under a bridge.

For the House she drew a set of sheets in one or two inks. From across the room they are waves; close up they are only lines, every one of them drawn by hand.

Rotring 0.18, two inks, about four hundred lines a sheet.

Blue ripple, 1996. Ink on paper.
LX-AEM-002 Blue ripple · 1996
Green and black, 1997. Ink on paper.
LX-AEM-003 Green and black · 1997
Rust, 1997. Ink on paper.
LX-AEM-004 Rust · 1997
Three inks, 1998. Ink on paper.
LX-AEM-005 Three inks · 1998

House archive

  1. LX-AEM-001Interference, red and black1996Ink on paper
  2. LX-AEM-002Blue ripple1996Ink on paper
  3. LX-AEM-003Green and black1997Ink on paper
  4. LX-AEM-004Rust1997Ink on paper
  5. LX-AEM-005Three inks1998Ink on paper