Graphology
Words like bullets — don’t fire your weapon randomly
Graphology treats the letter as both weapon and evidence: every word carries the force of an intention, and every mark testifies to the one who made it. In Pfishova’s hands language is stamped, fractured and multiplied until it can no longer be read — thought caught at the threshold where it becomes act, and act becomes trace, becomes flesh.
The word made body: it stays between us like a line of scripture, and it materialises. An intention held long enough turns into thought, then word, then deed and conduct, then the body itself — physical reactions, the effects of our actions, the objects we make and the things we do to one another. A field of marks about the power and the limits of what we think, say and set loose upon the world: freedom and its control, the fired word and the record it leaves behind.
Typo All
2019 · acrylic on canvas · 70 × 60 cm
“Typo All” is a full field of fired words. Hundreds of stamped, fractured letter-forms saturate the surface until meaning dissolves into rhythm and static — language seen as force and as evidence rather than message.
Every character here was hand-carved by the artist into different materials, like seals or stamps, and pressed into the canvas — a residue of Pfishova’s fascination with relief and intaglio printing, and with the old crafts of woodcut, linocut and the graphic print. She carries these traditions into painting to give them a second life, in homage to the old masters of the press such as Albrecht Dürer.
Each mark is an intention released and a trace left behind, thought caught at the moment it becomes act — writing held between power and consequence, between the shot and the record, the point where communication stops meaning and starts to testify.
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