Installation, multimedia, fine arts
Megjegyzések:
PRIVATE INVESTIGATION
It may seem like a heretical thought when I say that, just like nature itself, the visual has no semantics, no universally inherent meaning. At least not in the sense in which we use that term with regard to spoken or written language.
But what is language, really? What is required for something to be considered a language? What makes language meaningful in the first place? Language cannot be merely a private event, because its meaning is fundamentally a public phenomenon. Language is a social activity. Its meaning is not grounded in inner experiences but in its use. There is no language outside of life. Outside of life, words are nothing but noises.
On the other hand, a completely private language cannot meaningfully exist. Introspection cannot serve as the foundation of meaning. If a single person is both the sole user and sole judge of a language, then there is no genuine meaning. If the meaning of a word is entirely private, then that word is not part of a shared language. In fact, it is meaningless.
Perhaps this is the most tangible reason for, and explanation of, the enduring need for visual expression. The visual arts exist because there are things for whose expression words or writing are insufficient.
Private Investigation is an experiment that attempts to condense within itself the fundamental conflict between the verbal (the logical, the comprehensible) and the nonverbal (the unsayable, the intuited), the contradictions between metaphorical and practical modes of thought, as well as the illusion that these oppositions might be reconciled.
It is obvious, yet nevertheless interesting, that both philosophy and the visual arts concern themselves with the unsayable – that is, with the limitations of linguistic logic. Continuously and in every respect, they demonstrate that the unsayable exists.
It is also interesting how long it took for philosophy, through Wittgenstein, to articulate that human existence is fundamentally a linguistic question. Everything begins with language and ultimately returns to it.
Freely inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Private Investigation
Tasnádi József MegosztásÉv: 2026
Méretek: ~ 800 x 350 x 110 cm
Technika: Multimedia
Ár: n.a.
Fotós: Kovács Máté