Sort considers the gallery house as a clean, paper web page and convenes textual content and language-based artworks by artists from throughout the globe. Replete with various languages, the exhibition intends to talk linguistically, conceptually and bodily in a number of methods.
The present adopts a salon model of presentation the place textual content and language items by artists—in vinyl, neon, and paint—come to fill, and doubtlessly engulf the gallery house. By together with artworks that take the gallery wall as a floor—with out different supporting buildings comparable to paper, canvas or in any other case—the exhibition web site itself turns into ever extra charged as a framing machine.
The centre of language fashioned by the exhibition alludes to the complexity of communication, with all its diverging and contrasting multiplicity of that means, intent and function, whereas it attests to the artwork historic lineage of artists’ use of textual content. A separate but overlapping area of curiosity is typography and its place as a visible language and graphic type of communication. The exhibition revels in kind’s notions of association and composition, construction, and look, in addition to in its mode of projecting past its container to talk profoundly of political and social problems with our time.
Collaborating artists:
Meriç Algün, William Anastasi, Steve Bishop, Alejandro Cesarco, Débora Delmar, Matias Faldbakken, Mimi Hope, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Mario García Torres, Louise Lawler, Ghislaine Leung, Hana Miletić, Jonathan Monk, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Kay Rosen, SoiL Thornton, Lawrence Weiner, Bedwyr Williams
Curated by
Adam Carr
