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"I wasn’t prepared for what I would find at the exhibition, which is like stepping into a poem. The gallery is a page, the walls are the line, and I – I am the eye that flits from word to word, that lingers."

"When text is written in ink, and clay writes as words, the collaboration between Benjamin Coutouvidis and Katherine Glenday forms a collage of sentences in tones of red and green."

Tell Me Nicely (Please), That You Are Leaving Again forms part of the group exhibition artwords on text and image at the Gallery at Glen Carlou. It can be viewed along with a selection of other works by Maia (Levan) Lehrer-Sacks until 5 November.

"Incipit. Scree. Explicit. was first exhibited at Artexte, the archive, research centre and residency programme already mentioned. It’s nice to think that it’s moved into a gallery space now, as part of the artwords exhibition at Glen Carlou – from a textual to a visual context."

In the recording studio, text transforms into sound, and poetry is reshaped as voice. Klara du Plessis reflects on both the theoretical foundation and the making of a sound and video installation, Incipit. Scree. Explicit., produced with Kadie Salmon and on display at artwords (Gallery @ Glen Carlou).

The wildfire that tore across Table Mountain and on to UCT’s campus destroyed not only the physical archive of materials and records, but also aspects of historical memory. The object makes visible and tangible the loss of a library, representing not only UCT’s Jagger Library but also other archives, where materials and objects have been lost forever, and, in this case, where numbers (Dewey Decimal Classification) embody a larger set of meanings.

"Plot" is the main title of three of Jeannette Unite’s art works currently on view at artwords, a group exhibition on text and image at Gallery @ Glen Carlou until 5 November. The works are subtitled Geological deep time, Carbon measures, and Admission of guilt legislation. "Plot" is also the title of her recent major show at the Iziko National Museum in Cape Town.

Die twee olieskilderye op doek, Bellini, skilder, Herr S en Swart & pienk dispuut, asook nog vier ander werke van Ingrid Winterbach, vorm deel van die groepuitstalling artwords by die Glen Carlou Galery, waar dit besigtig kan word tot 5 November.

"Voor deze notitie op vraag van Jean Dreyer heb ik ervoor gekozen de intrigerende 'intermedial gap' tussen woord en beeld kort aandacht te geven. In mijn onderzoeksgebied, de letterkundige neerlandistiek, wordt nogal wat onderzoek naar intermedialiteit ondernomen. Ik word geboeid door semantische en poëticale relaties tussen schilderkunst en poëzie."

"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.

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. The opening text is by Jean Dreyer. This exhibition opened on 10 September at the Gallery @ Glen Carlou (on the Klapmuts Road).