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The Wall is the First Lesson in Expressions
"Nature and words can cross indefinitely to form for those who know about reading one big text."
This saying by Michel Foucault reinforces the concept that language is the first indication of the culture of a place and the people who live there.
Nature is inhabited by the word. Writings and graffiti on the walls are but one of its many forms that are used to announce and to deny. They are at the same time fearful and frightening. They mobilize under the guise of opposition, but are both strong and afraid, happy and depressed.
All things that live among us and we live among them make language our idiosyncrasy. At the same time, all the things that live among us have their own lives.
Regis Debray in his book about the image and its death wrote about how a Chinese emperor asked a great illustrator of the palace to erase the waterfall in the mural because the trickling water was preventing him from sleeping.
Simply put, writings on the wall represent in their reality a robust text of open expression, filled with the tales and secrets of those who came into contact with the wall.
What is remarkable is that the language and culture on walls in the form of letters, drawings and scribble, vary in their form and style, according to cultures. However, they have one language that purposefully highlights expressions of love, hate, shame, degradation, violence, brutality, rebellion … Rebellion against the prevailing social, political and even persona ideas.
The ultimate end is that the language that lives inside us needs to express itself in some way.
© Foto: Ammar Hammad
Ausstellung in Bahrain über das Konzept von \"Sprache\". Werke, Statements, Text des Kurators.