In-Visible exhibition
“Understanding love in 9 languages” 2024, 30 x 35 cm, sound wave photogram on Illford portfolio black and white photographic paper, hand colored with photographic pigments. The languages from left to right, to to bottom are German, (Lie-be), Croatian (Lju-bav), Italian (A-mo-re),Polish (Mi-łość), Finnish (Rak-ka-us), English (Love), Swedish (Kär-lek), French (A-mour) and Georgian (სიყვარული siq’-va-ru-li).
In-Visible exhibition at Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin consisted of new sound-wave photograms. In the series above, “Understanding love in 9 languages” I asked 9 people to say the word Love in their native language, made a recording of the words, and then split the recorded words into syllables. Using my experimental sound wave photogrammetry system, I exposed the sound waves directly onto photographic paper syllable by syllable. I then joined the syllables together by coloring a continuity-line using archival pigments used for coloring black and white photos.
The work is about communication, understanding and the idea that spoken words are just motion or energy in the air, and the meaning for this energy transfer is created in the heads of the listeners.
The second series in the exhibition deals with the process of “othering” in language. I used Finnish words with meanings like we-them-those-us. The Finnish words sound very similiar: me, te, he, ne which leads into similiar shapes of soundwaves, with very different meanings.
In addition to the speech and word based artworks the exhibition also included works in purely concrete photography context.