Under the tongue part two

The project “Under the Tongue” connects the threads of two types of communication – written-abstract and pictorial-concrete. The typographic manner in which Cyrillic and Latin letters turn into pictograms bends the line of time and closes it in a continuous circle. It is an intersection of two different points of view on the objective world, of two ways of interpreting it.
The exhibits in this expanding collection occupy an intermediate place between two eras in the written tradition – between the letters we use to write and the images we can read. For me, the importance of this project is in the gentle provocation and invitation to viewers to read. To use their imagination and discover the ideas encoded in the images.

From the author

What determines whether a word will become archaic? Is it the loss of the reality it denotes, or our growing paradigmatic imagination? How do these archaic words fit into our world today, when we can compare and substitute them with so many others, when we can open so many other dictionaries?

Neli Staneva

Author: Damyan Damyanov
Publisher: Siela
ISBN: 9789542846604
Year of publication: 2024
Cover: hardcover
Pages: 136
Format: 13×20
Language: Bulgarian