Liquid gestures: The language of that land

Abstract

The painterly language arising from the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler finds itself describing gestures that behave ‘in-between’ constructed histories. Historic accumulated gestures by female painters and artists at seminal moments in history point towards spaces in which contemporary artists can speak about how new painting language can be formed, now. Using notions of liquidity from Giorgio Agamben and Luce Irigaray to think of a new painterly terminology. The field of making, the performance and transitive material visualizations of Frankenthaler’s practice makes space for the voices of female painters after her.