Points of Unity

Anthony Zemke, Point No.16 (Benjamín Labatut, 'When We Cease to Understand the World'), 2024, oil pencil on paper, 500 x 400 mm

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Anthony Zemke, Point No.11 (Banana Yoshimoto, 'Kitchen'), 2024, graphite on paper, 500 x 400 mm

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Anthony Zemke, Point No.1 (Baháʼu'lláh, 'The Call of the Divine Beloved'), 2024, graphite pencil on paper, 500 x 400 mm

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Anthony Zemke, Point No.9 (Kahlil Gibran, 'The Prophet'), 2024, graphite pencil on paper, 500 x 400 mm

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Anthony Zemke, Point No.10 (Lao Tzu, 'Tao Te Ching'), 2024, oil pencil on paper, 500 x 400 mm

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Points of Unity comprises eighteen monochromatic drawings which attempt to transcend our culture of discord, division, and polarisation through the practice of ‘abstract illumination’. This practice involves transmuting a carefully selected ensemble of literary bestsellers, poetic fables, and religio-philosophical texts into visual meditations on the dialectical beauty of opposites, paradoxes, and contradiction.