Josse Pyl

I Think and I Think I've Thought a Thought A thought is formed in the stomach, breathes it through to the chest and neck, which forms its timbre, and then moves through the vocal cords to form its pitch, into the mouth, where the tongue and teeth give its final texture and push the word outside the body, into the air. Josse Pyl’s spatial language investigates the intuition that lies behind our perception of the world. Our understanding of reality is closely linked to the symbols and images that we make, but the silences and unspoken symbols also form our reality. His works show the construction behind the visible signs as well as the invisible sounds that connect one person with another. Pyl has a desire to find a form that expresses our conscious and subconscious thoughts. The drawings and objects can be considered as characters or symbols that are part of a story unfolding gradually in the exhibition space. A physical grammar that forms a separate linguistic world, permeated with its own dreamlike logic that ensures that the familiar forms of communication are made tangible and alienated. Sculptures / Typewriters The line drawings form the basis for a series of electronic works. These function as well as the actual thing (typewriter) with which you can produce texts, as well as a core of meanings and associations (letters, the sound of typing, typos, the abstraction of language, the ever-starting again) that can be read here. Pyl approaches these sculptures as spatial poems that immediately become part of the space. For this reason, these machines show references to intercoms, objects that are already unobtrusively present in spaces, and that try to communicate with each other and the viewer as well as invite them to read numbers in their writing. By displaying these works in conjunction with each other, a 'conversation' arises in different media about language and communication: Does language consist of images? Do we think of words or numbers in images? How does the act of writing relate to thinking? Can you pronounce a form? How does a form generate meaning?