Esquinas / Corners, 2007-2008, is a
series of twenty-two drawings on paper by Armando Andrade Tudela, created on
the back of an earlier series he made around 2002. Executed in nervous strokes
in blue ballpoint pen, each drawing features a young man who, with an
unassuming air, is busy walking through the streets of a city, or a woman who
seems to pause, leaning against a wall. The two never meet, although each
drawing seems to suggest their possible proximity. The many details contained
in each sheet, which include a description of the crumbling walls, traces of
graffiti and garbage abandoned on the pavement, convey a recurrent idea that
the viewer, outside the sheet, is glimpsing what the protagonists do not seem
to perceive: corners, other walls that intersect and twist and turn, and above
all the high possibility of an encounter that never seems to occur. [...]
