The exhibition “No words in letters” presents works created during a workshop of the same title. The showcase is the result of an experimental process led by Nuno Sacramento (Peacock & the worm, Aberdeen), held at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
The proposal of the project is that language is raw material: the exhibited works do not rely on the traditional role of words; instead, they view letters as autonomous signs, visual structures, and potential sounds. Inspired by Lettrist practices, the exhibition explores what happens when we step outside the conventional routines of writing and reading.
Through the act of writing, the works examine the cycles of expansion and reduction within artistic disciplines: they strip words of their original meanings and treat letters as independent forms by stretching, breaking, erasing, or decomposing linguistic units into phonetic fragments.
The presented material is the imprint of a creative laboratory, where language was deconstructed into its basic elements before being reassembled into new relationships. After its debut at the ISBN+ gallery, the exhibition will travel to the Peacock exhibition space in Aberdeen.