The Shape of Language

Before words are read, they are shapes; before they are interpreted, they are marks, objects, sounds, and material traces. The artists in this exhibition explore what happens when language is transformed into architecture, pattern, archaeological trace, visual form, and recorded object. In doing so, they reveal meaning not as something fixed within language itself, but as something continually produced through acts of looking, listening, recognition, and interpretation. Each of the participating artists investigates the ways meaning is encoded, not always through words themselves, but through symbols, abstraction, material, and gesture. In doing so, they create works that mimic or invoke language without relying on the viewer's ability to read them. Rather than asking viewers simply to decode what they encounter, the works gathered here reveal that meaning is rarely fixed or universal.

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