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Lot Essay
‘Right now it just feels like this big knot of all these different tendencies. It’s coming out in my drawings a lot; they look like these nests or gnarled webs. Space is deflated and conflated. I’m still trying to understand it myself’ (J. Mehretu, quoted in L. Chua, ‘Artists in Conversation: Julie Mehretu’, in BOMB Magazine, no. 91, Spring 2005).