Where Silent Monumentalism Begins - Pieter Lategan 2026

 My work begins with reduction. I start from a form, draw it, duplicate it, and then reduce it to find its structure. Through repetition, resizing, and removal, I strip away detail until only weight, balance, and silence remain. I work with fragments, minimal forms, and small shifts rather than finished images. This process is not about style, but about discipline: a way of working that moves across drawing, painting, writing, and spatial work. Silent Monumentalism is the world in which this practice lives, where structure and silence carry the meaning.

This practice exists in a field where artists and writers have worked with reduction, structure, and fragments, including artists such as On Kawara, Ed Ruscha, and Sophie Calle, and writers such as Samuel Beckett, Lydia Davis, and Georges Perec. These are references to a shared territory, not sources of influence.

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