Language is Broken
Language is Broken is a new series of work first exhibited at Galerie Data in Paris 3 April 2025. The exhibition showcased the works of four artists who question the boundaries of language. By deconstructing images, disrupting the linearity of text, or subverting algorithms, the works presented transform rigid frameworks into new visual spaces for experimentation.
Language is Broken evolves from my earlier project distraKted, which was presented as an online exhibition with Verse Works in December 2024. This new iteration not only presents fresh images that have been printed, but also reveals the generative system underlying the work’s creation.
The initial ideas for this generative work emerged from a personal experience with diminishing reading attention, which led me to investigate some of the universal formal qualities that allow text to be recognized across different writing systems, even without understanding the language itself.
Text possesses inherent structural patterns that shape how thoughts are organized into communicative concepts. Perhaps the most fundamental of these patterns is linearity – the way written language occupies space on a page in predictable, ordered arrangements. By deliberately disrupting and distorting these linear structures, as well as playing with typographic form, the work seeks to highlight language’s visual essence while revealing it's fragility. This process liberates letterforms and their spatial compositions from their communicative function, allowing them to exist purely as visual works.
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