Anna Maria Maiolino Brazilian, b. 1942

Anna Maria Maiolino’s Vestigios [Vestiges] are a series of ink drawings formed of modular markings and interconnecting lines, which build up into highly graphic images.

Maiolino takes the term ‘vestige,’ along with other titles of her works on paper series, including the Indícios [Indexes] series, from photographic theory. These terms are used by Philippe Dubois in his writing on photography and its relation to the real, noting that in each photograph, a sliver of time escapes its ordinary fate, protected from being lost: a vestige of time trapped on film. The gestural marks in these drawings are vestiges of the artist and her presence in the moment of making.

A further work from the Vestigios [Vestiges] series is held in the MoMA collection.