From the Root of Her Tongue

From the Root of Her Tongue by So-Yeon Kim explores language origins through signs, symbols, and iconography. It transforms written script into a visual narrative, engaging readers in a visual language experience with meticulously curated images from second-hand books and archives. This visual sequence mimics written syntax, encouraging readers to explore the power of images as language.

Mariana Lobão’s accompanying text Weaving the Mesh (Spider Thoughts) examines weaving, memory, and cognition. Inspired by Kim’s work and Paolo Veronese's painting of Arachne, Lobão explores the myth of Arachne and Athena, linking weaving to cultural memory and comparing the spider's web to human thought.

From the Root of Her Tongue is part of the Publishing Dialogues series, by artists/authors who explore language as an instrument and construct. With the series we want to create a space for small scale experiments. Not to publish a definitive, immutable object, but to make a suggestion. One that is open to improvement, revision, call-and-response, iteration, or even a full negation.