Hinrich Sachs: Mother Tongues
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Beschreibung
Learning to read and write is a normative influence, shaping the way we perceive the world. With this in mind, the artist’s book Mother Tongues explores the process of becoming literate as an intertwining of imagery, language, and social and cultural identifications. The book is part of a long-term project on multilingualism undertaken by artist and author Hinrich Sachs. Since 1992, Sachs has sourced over 150 book covers from relevant teaching materials from around the world and rendered them as watercolors. Their iconographic grouping reveals cultural dynamics and symbols. New perspectives on the digital present are afforded by the dialogue that emerges with texts written by authors based in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North and South America. This highlights how languages and the cultural technique of writing have a formative quality that extends beyond the political.
Raffael Dörig is an art historian and collector of musical materials for children. Egija Inzule is a curator working at the intersection of art, ecology, and decolonial spatial practices. Hinrich Sachs is a visual artist who has been exploring multilingualism for over thirty years.
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Raffael Dörig
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