Through the vocal cords to form its pitch, into the mouth, where the tongue and teeth give its final texture and push the word outside the body, into the air.
With his own spatial language, Josse Pyl examines the intuition that lies behind our perception of the world in order to show the machinery behind those signs and sounds that connect one person to another. Our understanding of the world is closely connected with the symbols and images that we create to form them, but silence and unspoken words also form our reality.
Language abounds in all areas of Josse Pyl’s artistic practice.
His sculptures and drawings are often attempts to translate the hidden logic of signs and symbols, while his animatronic works draw attention to the ways communication is performed. Working with a range of media and materials, Pyl gives shape to the experiences of thinking, writing, looking, and reading, locating them within spatial environments. i THINK and I think i’ve THOUGHT a thought collects the various components of Pyl’s practice from 2014 to 2021 in one publication by making use of the frottage technique. Working with pencil and paper, Pyl has inscribed each page with elements taken from different works. From these fragments, when they are taken together, a new vocabulary can be assembled: a collection of semantic artifacts rendered in binary patterns of light and shadow, negative and positive, and in no gradated or hierarchical order.
The images that can be composed from these fractured parts are revealed only gradually as they superimpose upon each other, conjuring new associations, new ways of reading, with each turn of the page.
author: Josse Pyl
design: Jungmyung Lee/J-LTF
publisher ROMA publications
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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i THINK and I think i’ve Thought was part of Test Press Books |2| / 2022