2025 | Poster series, exhibition
What we call language, in the broadest sense, is bodiless when spoken. Once it is written, its physical form gives sound a shape that can travel across distance and time. When language is written, carved, or printed, meaning becomes material. In that state, letters can fade, crack, or vanish. The tie between word and meaning loosens, and what remains is not information but an artefact. These artefacts carry more than text: they hold small histories of exposure and neglect.
I collected fragments left after communication and use, and tried to “read” them. By “read” I do not mean recovering a message, but noticing the time, actions, and conditions to which the letters were exposed, or following the associations their remaining shapes may suggest. The aim is to reframe letters as visual poetry and as the embodied residue of signs, and to let their material persistence open another way of seeing. These attempts have resulted in a series of re-composed graphics.
The starting point of this project is the materiality of media, which I have been interested in in recent years. Media themselves carry meaning; their physical presence shapes what they say. That same physicality also makes them fragile, liable to fade, break, and fail. In past works, I explored this through both analogue and digital images. In this project, I extend that inquiry to text as a medium.