Opening Event
Sunday 17 May, 2–4 pm
Exhibition Dates
Thursday 14 May – Sunday 14 June 2026
In the beginning there was a line.
In different forms.
In different contexts.
The written line.
The drawn line.
The straight line.
The curved line.
The spherical line.
The melodic line.
The maternal line.
The ancestral line.
The line has always been my starting point, whether drawn on paper with a pencil, pen, ink or following a melodic line of thought in musical improvisations and compositions. If I am creating sculptures with wires, used piano wires, violin strings, or using scissors and knives to cut a line into paper and letting the direction of the cut lines to develop and reveal new patterns, new shapes, positives and negatives, new perspectives and possibilities in two and three dimensional works, the process always starts with the line. Fundamentally, I am following a line of thought to see where it goes. To be an active observer is the essence of that process.
For this new installation at Goldstone’s Gallery, I have incorporated works from my series ‘The Busts’ from 2022 as well as three larger works from this year. All of these works are continuations of various themes - of time, black clouds, movement, interior, exterior, negative and positive - all the works are cut out of one single piece of black paper. Dimensions range from 60 x 50 cm ( ‘The Busts’ ) to ‘Reflections on Time 3 - Exterior’, measuring 300 x 140 cm. ‘The Busts’ are re-named in this exhibition as ‘Portraits’ and incorporate shapes, patterns and thoughts which recur, reappear and return in my work with black paper. The ‘Portraits’ draw on a gallery of themes, idée fixe, which can be observed in the larger paper sculptures on display. They are all related. Ancestral portraits in the lineage of lines, shapes, patterns and leitmo,vs. ‘Reflection on Time 1, 2 and 3’ are compositions all of which include one or more large discs fragmented with geometrical lines and shapes. These discs have become an important leitmotiv in my work for many years and represents ‘time ’.
"Deborah Wargon is a composer. Whether found in her musical compositions, or her equally musical sculptural cut-outs . . . there emits a sonic pulse of landscapes, journeys, traces and songline petrified in black, levitating, casting shadows . . . and free floating wall hangings. These curvaceous lines signal a primal thread between the stiching of tempo, motion, narrative and the celebration of the fertile to arid lands. The "feminine" dominates her discourse, subliminally and consciously. A matriarchal celebration, an ode to ancestry far and beyond, reaching to the present and futures, both utopic and dystopian. In Wargon's work we have personal and reflexive memory she has committed to her sculptural traces, and in the afterburn they carry their own personal import for the viewer, in and after it's being in its presence. Like the haunting of a melody, echoing after. They are collectively the lineage of ancestral story, myth and its universal undercurrents of sexuality, fertility, the masculine and feminine, mirrored opposites within the void and expanse, of storytelling and song. Wargon is tracing the line from the blind spots of her ancestry, her heritage and, umbilically, threading it to the present in evocative, vibrant and dynamic form."
–– Adam Nankervis, artist, curator, writer. another vacant space Berlin
Opening Hours
Thursday, 14 May 4 – 8pm
Friday, 15 May 12 – 6pm
Saturday, 16 May 12 – 6pm
Sunday, 17 May 12 – 4pm
Sunday, 17 May 2 – 4pm Opening Event Celebration
Friday, 22 May 12 – 6pm
Saturday, 23 May 12 – 4pm
Sunday, 24 May 12 – 4pm
Friday, 2 May 1pm – 6pm
Saturday, 30 May 11am – 1pm
Thursday, 4 June 12pm – 3pm
Friday, 5 June 12pm – 6pm
Saturday, 6 June 11am – 4pm
Sunday, 7 June 11am – 4pm
Thursday, 11 June 12pm – 2pm
Saturday, 13 June11am – 4pm
Sunday, 14 June 11am – 4pm
