Laith McGregor
Curation as a form of drawing research gathers quietly, taking shape through the cross-conversation of artists, works, writing and thought. Testing the bounds of drawing, this practice proceeds iteratively, allowing meaning and knowledge to form gradually over time — still provisional, still forming.
Laith McGregor / DRAWING PARALLELS: A Conversation
A collaborative work with Joel Cooper.
Curator — Belinda Yee
In September 2025, DRAW Space presented a new performance by Laith McGregor in collaboration with Joel Cooper — a large scale drawing, an elusive portrait, a silent conversation.
Art guides a shared gathering of ideas to harness the imagination, to talk of the unseen, and grapple with issues that are difficult to put into words. It is a way of communicating that creates space to transform and challenge our perception. Throughout human history, art has been the one consistent language that allows humans to navigate the lived experience, to look for the gravitas of truth, to question the existence and that which cannot be explained. Art gives us a sense of the moment, of the now, it’s a way of connecting and sharing ideas through the sensory, a way to surrender and explore the in-between collectively. More importantly, art is the key to guide, and search for answers of why we are here. These ideas are often explored through the drawing and the line.
“Mime goes beyond movement, it goes really deep in the human soul, it shows the interiority, the feelings we have, the emotions, even through immobility, and then we can feel the flow of time, like we feel it in music when we feel the sound. Mime is similar to graphic art, because we draw in space, like the painter draws on a canvas.” — Marcel Marceau
As an artist, I keep asking myself, am I essentially a mime, creating something out of nothing, forming a world that isn’t there, building a space that is analogous to the real, but entirely up for interpretation? Perhaps I am, perhaps I need to have a further conversation with the subliminal. A conversation that brings the two together. I think everyone could do with a healthy conversation to share and bring forth a positive momentum, to draw parallels. To draw a line between one idea to the next, to form new ideas. Shall we? Shall we draw? Shall we have a conversation?
Laith McGregor, 2025
For more information see — DRAW Space