Sergey Palche (b. 1985)
As long as the hand is moving, there is only action. Once the action has ended, the trace begins to follow its own logic. Entering into relationships with other traces, it gives rise to form.
For me, gesture is neither a way of expressing an inner state nor a trace of the hand’s movement. It is a minimal action capable of altering matter. Through repetition, gesture ceases to belong to the artist and begins to enter into relationships with other gestures. Form emerges precisely through these relationships. I am interested not in the expressiveness of gesture, but in the moment when it acquires its own internal logic and begins to exist as an autonomous organism.