Individual Residencies
2022 | Ben Jenner
For the duration of my stay at The Museum of Loss and Renewal I expanded upon a body of work that explored the idea of discerning a narrative through reading asemic writing. Asemic writing is loosely defined as being a body of handwritten marks that look like the written word, but are void of semantic content. Therefore the reading we deduce from the writing is emotive, and allows for understanding to happen across all linguistic meaning.
I eagerly immersed myself in a setting that was ‘foreign’ to me, to explore these ideas where the language spoken was not my mother tongue. How might a language that I do not understand look visually? Time spent amongst the local community stimulated fresh ideas that celebrated this poetic tension.