DANA NECHMAD

In Tension (2019) brings together a group of works that explore the body as both image and material; an active site where opposing forces coexist rather than resolve. Across drawing, embroidery, and hand-dyed surfaces, the works trace moments of becoming: gestures that hover between construction and release, control and surrender.

Thread moves through the surface like a quiet insistence, binding and disrupting at once. It marks time, records repetition, and introduces a tactile rhythm that resists immediacy. Figures emerge not as fixed identities, but as shifting presences held in states of suspension, where interior and exterior begin to blur.

Rather than illustrating tension as conflict, the works hold it as a generative condition. Through the interplay of softness and resistance, exposure and concealment, they propose a space in which vulnerability and strength are not opposites, but interdependent forms of knowledge.