Josse Pyl explores the hierarchies between the tools of speech, communication, the body, and decision-making. How words pass through human and other bodies, how language and speech are formed and disintegrate. Pyl tries to understand this intertwined system without hierarchy and through the making of drawings, sculptures, and environments where language and stories are formed, where they move and are lost.
The installation at Art Rotterdam sets an eye toward the machinery that hides behind those signs and symbols that connect one person to another. Pyl created a series of stone reliefs as a basis for the works, by using oil stick, pencil and paper the drawings emerge out of the object it means to represent. Each piece of paper is inscribed with signs and symbols, installed together, they assemble a new vocabulary. Letters turn into characters and get lost among images and thoughts and exist somewhere between image and text, between looking and reading. Sight and visual language are superimposed and lead to a world amidst reality and imagination.