Sam Porritt - Looping Line (Black and white drawings) 

Sam Porritt's works at Autokomanda follow, as he'd once said himself, 'the audacity of the line', an exploration of the medium of drawing. As a practice, drawing surprisingly often has no premeditated subject: one just needs to get on a long phone call while holding a pen to remember how easy it is to make an involuntary scribble. The repetition in Sam's drawings is, in fact, reminiscent of an element from the old telephone, the looping line that connects the receiver to the machine. Simultaneously, these works offer evidence of the mind-hand connection, a depiction of an endless telephone line, and potentially a representation of time, guiding us through the ways and paths that the line travels and, literally, takes our time. It is worth noticing one odd drawing, in which the line finally deteriorates from the loop, making its future path unpredictable for us. This brings forth the other series included alongside the looping line, in which the artist invites the eye to determine facial familiarity from the vaguely figurative linear expressions. These works become a meditation of the face that 'is as changeable as the surface of water' and, together with the looping line works, play with an urge for existential readings of minimal gestures, as well as seeing meaning in what are possibly non-directed things and unintentional shapes.