Nnena Kalu: Index presents Vortex Drawings from 2018 — works on paper built from systematic repetition of marks and gestures that record the movement of the body over time rather than depicting external subjects. Color operates as kinetic force alongside line, layered mosaics of reds, greens, pinks, and blues drifting and clustering into form. Drawing on Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the index — a sign produced by actual contact with its object — Kalu's lines create meaning through physicality and emotion, accumulating into rhythmic terrains that are felt before they are interpreted.
