A note on : Alphabet in Decay exhibition

Really happy to have a work in this remarkable exhibition hosted by etkbooks stores gallery in Berne, Switzerland, curated by Joakim Norling of Timglaset.

Alphabet in Decay – International exhibition of visual poetry beyond language. Artists and authors from 11 countries. Curated by Timglaset Editions, Sweden. Exhibition @ etkbooks store, 05.11.2021-26.11.2021

“the fact that the letters of the alphabet are instantly recognizable is one of the foundations of language and of poetry. but what happens when individual letters lose their meaning and become unrecognizable? this exhibition brings together works by visual poets and artists from around the world who have tweaked and manipulated the letters of the alphabet to the point where they have become illegible and decayed, or devised new representations of individual letters.” (Joakim Norling, Timglaset Editor)

At this link you can download a pdf of the whole exhibition catalogue https://www.etkbooks.com/alphabet/

Work: Atrocita is an asemic poem working through its own material – indian ink and spit – moving from legibility to open meaning. It is taken from the book Aletta Ocean's Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press), which was a volume of hand-made poems exploring the eros-less sexuality of the internet age through a singular aesthetic of black indian ink, mess, smudge, grids and scrawls.