Beyond the Word : Wenda Bartana
- 2007

In Beyond the Word, Wenda Bartana entwines language and architecture in a complex work touching every aspect of world, this consciousness prompts the artists to deal with the political, the geographical, and the everyday in a non-didactic way; it is the ability of text to stimulate our imaginations and to communicate images and meanings to each of us, but there is still something inhuman about this work. We find that in the hidden spaces. There is the immediate visual, three-dimensional impact; old memories are found and dragged back to present to our imaginations; we are faced with what appears to be a direct transcription of the impossible; there is some idea of an almost physiological study of art as a religious instrument, of considering it as though it were an organism, it takes more than just visual or acoustic reception to understand the works, for they are synaesthetic, appealing simultaneously to the visual, acoustic and physical perceptions of the viewer and captivating in their precision; it is up to the viewer to decide whether to immerse in the sub-text, whether or not to participate in the scenario.