Signs & Locations - "Contemporary witness" 2004
30x40 cm, porcelain, gold, velvet, wood
Series of 12 pieces
The cartographic work shows twelve officially used writing and sign systems on twelve gilded porcelain reliefs. Each panel also depicts the territory on which the depicted script is used. The desire to read the text is not fulfilled. The writing systems do not form words, the writing symbols are deliberately mirror-inverted, which is intended to counteract the first impulse of the eye to read the depicted characters, since the work is not about language, but about writing as a symbol of cultural affiliation. On the basis of official writing systems, other borders were established than the political ones we know. Symbolically, this work offers a different perspective on the division of the world and the establishment of borders. Writing as a carrier of culture connects different regions. It functions as a symbol of progress, education and communication, without which we would not have progressed. The work was designed in an archaeological manner as a silent witness of time or as a fragment of human history.