Edith Derdyk's 'O corpo da linha' explores drawing as existential knowledge

Edith Derdyk's new book 'O corpo da linha: notações sobre o desenho' investigates drawing as a sensitive and intuitive form of knowledge. The publication, organized as a stitching of fragments, proposes drawing as a bodily experience, a gesture of thought, and a way of inhabiting the world. Derdyk questions traditional hierarchies opposing word and image, rational and sensitive thought, and theory and practice. She presents eighteen new possibilities of lines, each accompanied by quotations. The book also defends the power of manual making, slowness, attention to detail, and the valorization of error as creative potential. Derdyk articulates references from philosophy, literature, and visual arts, engaging with thinkers and artists like Foucault, Deleuze, Clarice Lispector, and Fernando Pessoa. The work is described as a large poem, a manifesto, or an artist's book, focusing on the process and investigation from the archaeology of the line to new ways of seeing and tracing possible futures.