objects as concepts  

I am interested in concepts of space and related notions. Language as an open set of words, is often the indispensable element of my work. Space, as I take it, can be captured in words just because words often have a very particular capability. They can define phenomena which are not definite from their very nature in relation to space: far, remote horizon, large open space. On the other hand, language itself offers its own space. That makes entire situation even more multileveled.

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Literal (textual) description seems to be a simple and the most direct way of referring to reality. However, to me, the point is the unliteral use of words . To explore this idea I build 3dimensional objects or site-specific installations out of words or phrases. I believe, that there is a certain gluing of a language and things we perceive. I am curious about how words behave when they gain material, sensuous presence.

If one takes a word to the hand and examines it closer, looks from various angles, carefully, then finds out that the word has the shape, its own shadow, mirror reflection.
It can be often used – then it is already threadbare and shabby, frayed on its edges. Then its meaning becomes unclear.

After all we are involved in the inseparable relationship with space. Access to it (space) and to its notions takes place through the use of words, but not only through the key words or picklocks but with the use of normal words that just name things – things that are even in the empty room.
Thus “there is no such a thing like silence. There is always something that causes the sound” [John Cage] there is no empty space. And further – “...as long as human's eye looks there is always something to see. Looking at something what is empty is always looking and seeing.”

Malgorzata Szandala