Typo And Palindrome 2011
Jánis Nedéla, Australia
| For twenty-five years text has been
central to my work. Whether using collage, installation, painting,
performance or animation, it is the book as object and the manipulation
of text which constantly inform my work. In the past, social, literary, philosophical and political documents, tomes and book pages, some old and some aesthetically exquisite in themselves, have succumbed to a range of manipulations and interventions calculated to conspire a kind of linguistic and artistic subterfuge. Words are sometimes permanently concealed or reconstituted. The jackets, cut, even scorched and modified to accommodate implements such as taps, hooks and saws. The book has also been enchained, wrapped or rendered unopenable and unreadable. In recent years, I have also been working with transparent acrylic to introduced two new series of sculptural work(s) that reference the pages of an open book - Typo and Palindrome. In these works I have etched lines and sometimes painted the acrylic to configure the structure of the open book pages, each pair eluding to text on the printed page (referencing the layout/design artist, creating a double page spread or doing a line count), while others had the text of palindromes inscribed in one direction on one, in the reverse direction on the other. The fold in the open book matches the fold in language created by the palindrome. Viewing the books sideways from the Typo Series gives the impression that the reflected text goes on to infinity. |
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