“The title of this exhibition – artwords – invites us to consider the meeting of two modalities of representation: the interchange between the visual and the textual, between image and text, between language and object”. This is a blog series in dialogue with artwords, a group exhibition on text and art. Written contributions – posted in the forthcoming weeks on this LitNet platform – offer conceptual perspectives on the exhibition, and engage with the process and product of featured artworks. This exhibition opened on 10 September at the Gallery @ Glen Carlou (on the Klapmuts Road). Gerhard Marx delivered the opening address.