Inka Nowoitnick
The Bad/Canyon
The Bad/Canyon, 2010
Pencil/collage on paper,
3 Unique works, signed, framed
Inka Nowoitnick’s drawings subvert the myth of the lonely cowboy riding alone on his horse through the vastness of the Wild West to bravely bring about justice. The main figure in these pictorial worlds is Nowoitnick herself, who does not present herself as a stereotypical “Westerner” at all. She draws her own prairie and collages her photographic self-portrait in the middle of it. These sketchy images are a subtly ironic reflection on spaghetti westerns in particular, which proffer exaggerations and clichés while breaking with them in an almost self-reflective way.