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Read Lips, 1993

The early work “Read Lips” (1993) is exemplary for Kay Rosens performative approach to language, as it displays the word MUM over three pages both as text and as image – the latter depicting the sketched movements of the mouth, while pronouncing the word. The different states of lip-movement correspond with the shapes of the letters M, U, and M, synchronizing the written language with the visual and the oral system of signs.

Read Lips, 1993

Silkscreen print on museum purpose cardboard
Portfolio of three sheets
Each 42,5 x 27,3 cm
In costum made folder
Signed, dated and numbered
Edition of 25

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