Years: 2007–2011

Can a rift exist in an open and hostile space? How can an open space become rifted? Active anxiety in a gapped space...

A rift in the sky is a key concept that Sasportas has explored extensively in her drawing works. Over the years, she has created a series of works on paper that focus on layered mapping, marked signs, and embedded codes of indigestible life events—events that became frozen in time and distorted the space. A space that cannot be represented or articulated through language; one that exists beyond the realm of language.

The series focuses on how an intense event leaves its mark on the space of the singular soul, which in turn creates a layered space of mind, and of the collective. The Cosmic Rifts series, which includes 48 drawings, explores the anatomy of a space of absence and a space of life that has been torn, fractured, and cracked, focusing on how the fracture and fissure were imprinted and left their mark on time.

The series deals with the mapping of different rifts that were drawn one on top of the other, thus creating different layers of marking, imprinting, and distortion trapped in time. Between the drawing lines and layers lies a deliberate contradiction, which rejects and opposes the nature of the drawing’s layer that was deliberately drawn above it.

Tension, contradiction, rejection, and conflict serve as representations of active matter and power trapped in time.