ist der text der text der ausbleibt

The exhibition brings together recent works by four artists living in Switzerland: Giovanna Belossi, Caterina De Nicola, Daniel Kurth, and Alan Schmalz. The most striking common ground between them is an interest in text and writing in the sense of language as material, writing as a starting point for materialisation, and writing and language as found objects that are decontextualised. This also involves a reappropriation of words, sentences, and (textual) images that have become commodified – as brands, slogans, or sales pitches. Letters (and with them the world) can always be rearranged. New text or non-text can emerge, or the text may be entirely absent. The title quotes a visual poem by Claus Bremer from the 1960s, which refers to blank spaces and the unspeakable, to what is mediated and what is immediate.