Nadia Adina Rose: Because
In this installation, Nadia Adina Rose weaves her two worlds, sculpture and poetry, into one work for the first time. She explores the elusive and deceptive nature of verbal language and opens up new possibilities for the visual reading of her poetry, thus seeking to observe the ambivalence inherent in the connection between language and the imaginary world it represents.
Right at the beginning of the exhibition, Rose plays with the paradox inherent in these relationships and frees the viewer-reader to move through the open spaces of language through the unexpected contexts she weaves. A mysterious silhouette calligraphy unfolds on scroll-like canvases hanging in space, while the verses of her poem, “Because,” projected onto them, appear and disappear alternately. The word “Because,” which opens each line of the poem, seems to rely on the existence of a logical structure of cause and effect, but its continuation unravels the bonds of the understood and the known. Beyond the screen, a surprising sight is revealed, continuing the movement toward the absurd. Rows upon rows of sewn branches emerge from the walls of the space, some naked and others sprouting meaningless calligraphic characters. They recall vegetation, unknown writing marks, and perhaps birds, flighty assumptions. Their shadows, spread out like a forest of bookmarks on the walls, invite a renewed look at language and writing as a human attempt to domesticate the wild and unknown reality, to impose order on chaos, and to create the illusion of knowledge.
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