El buen caligrama

calligram
(also calligramme; from French, from Greek kallos beauty + gramma letter)
1. A word or piece of text in which the design and layout of the letters creates a visual image related to the meaning of the words themselves

The fact that the term “disambiguation” exists is proof in itself that language is naturally ambiguous. This ambiguity gives rise to misunderstandings but also to poetic potential. And poetic potential in turn engenders the possibility of debating problematics which are difficult to express or to define. The artists showcased in this exhibition make the most of the incongruity of how something so precise can at once be so open.

The Good Calligram explores the power of language in written, oral or coded form within the visual arts. The artists engage with dilemmas of translation, repetition or coding as mechanisms to address questions pertaining to narration, self-referentiality, politics and the social.