PAULINA OŁOWSKA, ALPHABET, 2005 (1-26/26)

Paulina Ołowska has conducted a photographic performance in 2005, inspired by the book by Karel Teige ABECEDA written in 1926, prepared in cooperation with the Czekh dancer Milca Mayerova. Referring to the experimental mobile alphabet of Teige/Mayerova, Paulina Ołowska has linked constructivist fascination by typography with rhetoric function of a dance. The Artist has shaped her body into 26 letters, from A to Z, colliding the alphabet of written language with the „alphabet” of gestures and moves.

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