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In his notes On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein explores the question of which fundamental certainties in language and thought enable us to understand one another. However, his verbose exploration of such certainties takes an elliptical approach to the insight that there can be no final confirmation. There may be convictions that seem self-evident, but there are no unquestionable assumptions when speaking about the world. Our experience and the possibility of recognition are limited in language – or rather, fragmented.
Willem Oorebeek is interested in the relationship between text and image, and in their interplay within what is known as visual communication: sign systems that interact with each other, comment on each other, but can also clash in contradiction. He works with mass-produced images, manipulating and transposing them using various printing techniques – a process he refers to as “erasing”. When placed strategically in public...More
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In his notes On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein explores the question of which fundamental certainties in language and thought enable us to understand one another. However, his verbose exploration of such certainties takes an elliptical approach to the insight that there can be no final confirmation. There may be convictions that seem self-evident, but there are no unquestionable assumptions when speaking about the world. Our experience and the possibility of recognition are limited in language – or rather, fragmented.
Willem Oorebeek is interested in the relationship between text and image, and in their interplay within what is known as visual communication: sign systems that interact with each other, comment on each other, but can also clash in contradiction. He works with mass-produced images, manipulating and transposing them using various printing techniques – a process he refers to as “erasing”. When placed strategically in public...More
