Re-readings

About

‘No poet, no artist of any art, has complete meaning alone.’ T.S. Eliot (1)

The English philosopher John Austin described language as a net we use to try to catch our experiences of the world. Words, punctuation, typographic and topographic symbols are amongst systems we use that enable us to communicate. However, meaning is not held completely fixed within the frameworks we impose and visual artists explore this sense of slippage in very interesting ways.

The current exhibition brings together three U.K. artists whose work could be described as a form re-reading. Their art investigates source material that contains different kinds of language, re-fashioning it into new forms and altered narratives.

(1) ’Tradition and Individual Talent’, publ. in the Egoist, 1919