EUGÈNIA AGUSTÍ in conversation with Małgorzata Kaczmarska and Monika Aleksandrowicz

Gest — Est is a project by Eugènia Agustí that explores the concept of the page and its shifts between the realm of the visual arts and experimental practices that connect art with writing through language.

In this context, a series of works in progress are presented, as linguistic models, relating to publications and artist’s books, experimental writing and drawing, in which the original object—the printed and editable form, as an idea or conception and its container—is examined from different angles.

In the ritual of writing by hand, the gaze turns inwards, in a supposed search for depth within the linearity of the act of drawing lines. Words are linked to the experience of drawing, which in this case extracts and exposes them, with the distance provided by the shift from a prior digital process—associated with information overload—to one that places us in what precedes the arrival of the text. Following this logic, rewriting, tracing and following a text whilst tracing a printed word—and therefore one that has already been written—would form part of this approach. A similar phenomenon occurs when repeating some of these words aloud. The words relate to one another, and what is written and can be heard naturally whilst reading is perceived and felt as something new.

EUGÈNIA AGUSTÍ

Visual artist and Serra Húnter Fellow, lecturer in the Artistic Processes and Publishing Section of the Department of Visual Arts and Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona.

Her research focuses on the study of traditional and digital printing systems, their coded languages and their evolution as catalysts for reflection. Her artist publications, which explore the form of the book and the page, showcase his work and form part of the projects in which he is involved.

She is a member of ‘IMARTE: Research Group on Artistic Processes and New Technologies’ and of 13L Llibres d'artista (13L Artist’s Books). She has won several awards in printmaking competitions, and her works have been featured in exhibitions in various contexts and countries.

More info: https://www.ub.edu/imarte/en/

Organized by Word and Image Studio and Creative Communication Studio, ASP in Wrocław